Pay attention

One afternoon when I was going home from work, I rode a bus and found out that I didn't have smaller bill. I decided to pay Php500 to the bus conductor and then he wrote a note at the back of my ticket that he is yet to give my change.

I went to sleep and decided to just get my change after a while, out of trust in the bus company; after all, that bus company is considered one of the finest in our town. When I thought that the conductor was not busy anymore, I reminded him about my change. He got my ticket and then erased the note in my ticket and handed out the change. I saw him get an amount of Php800++ and gave it to me. I could still remember that for a second or two, I was looking at that amount (like in slow-mo), received it and put it in my coin purse.

I went back to sleep while on that ride. I went home with my boyfriend and watched videos (I can't remember if we watched Easy A or The Apparition). When my boyfriend went home, I checked my things and coin purse and wondered why I still have a Php500 bill in it. That's the time I remembered that the bus conductor gave much more than he should give me. I wondered why it did not sink in my mind that my change was too much. Poor bus. And poor me. I felt guilty on what I unintentionally did.

I think this incident made me check on how I look at things. Maybe I see things, but I don't pay attention. I can see a simple action but do not actually perceive what it means. Maybe I do that a lot of times. Seeing and not looking.

Maybe there are times that we are too busy to look, too busy to stop for a while and think, too busy to look at simple details, until we found that that it's too late to notice it. Too late to really see how some people that we know, care and help us in their simple ways. Too late that maybe God needs to tell us something and we are not ready to listen to it.

I found this verse from the Holy Bible and would like to share it:

"My son, pay attention to my wisdom, listen well to 

my words of insight."                  Proverbs 5:1

Stopping and thinking of how we look at things once in a while may be healthy. It may help us to pay attention more. Keep your senses open and listen.

God bless you and me! ♡