You see them every day,
but you don’t really know their names.
The woman selling siomai by the station.
The guard who never forgets to say “good morning."
The bus conductor who still cracks jokes at 6 a.m.
The stranger who gives up their seat without being asked.
They don’t know your story either.
But somehow, your lives intersect for a few brief minutes,
and it’s enough to remind you that the world still runs on kindness.
We often think impact has to be big. A promotion, a project, a breakthrough.
But sometimes it’s just the way someone smiles back after a long day, as if saying, “same.”
You’ll never know what these people carry, just as they’ll never know the battles you fight.
But for those few seconds in transit, you share the same air, the same exhaustion, the same small hope that tomorrow might run smoother than today.
And maybe that’s enough.
Because even when life feels heavy, there will always be people who lighten it.
Not by fixing anything. But simply by showing up, just like you.