Embrace Life With Bus Stop People

And learn new life experiences from them

Igor Carvalho
2 min readNov 17, 2020
Photo by Ravi Roshan on Unsplash

Life is the way it is. We live for some decades and gain experiences that no one would have, at least not like you. From time to time, we know people, people who are different from us, and people who will impact our life somehow. Each one of them is part of what we are now.

Talks that are profound, talks that are shallow, talks that make us think for years and years, and yet we never understand what was that about. People are different, and we have to embrace these differences by learning more about them. Learning about their successes, their mistakes, their love, and their deceptions, from that you can learn how to love better, how to trust better, and how to know people better.

Life is dynamic, and that is a fact. We always need to learn how to live remembering that life is living on its own and leaving us behind. Like time, life goes ahead, never goes back. So are we. We should not be stuck in the past, because as we can learn from other people, that living in the past you are stuck in time, never understand what’s happening around you.

People from the bus stop are those who you’ll know them for just a certain period, but they won’t last long in your life. Sometimes you will meet them again at the same bus stop or in another one, but the path is different, if it’s the same, those stay maybe until your last day on earth. But the thing is, these people aren’t disposable, they are people you can learn something or a lot from. Understanding how unique they are.

For me, as an introvert, I like to observe the environment and people in it. Listening carefully to what they have to say because then, I can learn from what they told me. I enjoy my solitude, learning from others that have passed in my life. Meaningful conversations, learning from their experiences, and their own wisdom.

You become wise when you become silent and just listen, especially when they are older than you. What they’ve been through in life, what they lose over the years and what they conquered too. By being silent, you receive wisdom from them. You share what’s necessary to share when is necessary to share. You talk when is necessary to talk and you listen when is necessary to listen.

Bus stop people, will come and go, but one thing is for sure, the bus stop will stay long.

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Igor Carvalho

I’m a tech lover, blogger, YouTuber, Netflix watcher, and on my daily work I’m a software engineer with several years of experience.