The Bus

I asked my best friend the other day the simplest question. "How's life?" I mean it usually doesn't get any more complicated than that; as well as the answers. They basically consist of a "Oh, life is good" , or a " Yea pretty slow right now," or something like that. But his answer made me frown. He told me.., " I guess I'm just watching it pass by." I questioned why he said it in such a depressing way. And his reply was, " Life is like a bus, it comes and it goes. Sometimes you just gotta keep going because life ain't stopping for Nobody..." 

I didn't really know how to reply to that...because it was true. In the same sense that I didn't want to think in a negative way, life doesn't stop. We keep going, and time keeps ticking. But then I realized that that's not what life is all about though. You can either think of things in a pessimistic or optimistic way. So, I smiled and told him ," Yea, that's true.. But you choose the bus you get on right? So it's up to you the way you are going to make it." ~