As I was heading home this morning, after an exhausting night, it was raining. I got pissed because I wasn’t able to ride the bus I wanted because of that f*ckin bus driver waiting for passengers and yet no one’s riding that old, loud and non- airconditioned bus of his. So I waited again, for another bus to arrive. People walking right pass me. Men smoking, women holding plastic bags with them, waiting for the next bus, waiting for their turn like me.
Then its starting to rain a little bit hard, lucky me I don’t have an umbrella with me. So I whispered to myself, “What the hell.”, and then I stopped and looked at the skies. And yes, it was getting darker.
At last my bus arrived, the only bus I wanted to ride. So I hopped in, looked for a seat and sat down. I looked at the TV screen and the movie was all about war, soldiers fighting. I payed my fare on my way home, familiar faces I see whenever I ride the bus telling me that I’m on my usual time to go home. The rain was starting to fade.
So the bus was on EDSA, Megamall, Cubao, Kamias, and then I looked by the window beside me. Looked up in the sky, and guess what I saw.
I saw a rainbow.
I cried, I don’t know why tears fell on my cheeks as I saw that wonder. I was in a state of shock when I saw that. Everything stopped. My world stopped and I didn’t wanted it to move. I stared at it, I knew I stared at it. It was 10 seconds, or maybe a minute or maybe more than a minute. But I knew I was staring.
I admit that I am not that happy now. I am not the usual me. But when I saw that, when I saw that rainbow, I knew that God talked to me, and I knew what He was trying to say to me. I knew that He was telling me that everything will be alright. I was crying, I was sobbing but I didn’t care if someones looking at me. That was the last thing I’m expecting to see. I closed my eyes for a second and said my thank you.
Thank you. And then I breathed deeply and smiled.