I know most of you either were not aware of this or don’t care, BUT I am filled with such a joy that I need to share it!

Since Tuesday, the STM (Montreal “Society” of Transport)’s employees were on stike. This means that nobody could use buses or the métro for transportation, the service was only maintained at rush hours. It was a frustration for lots of people and it created more trafic on the highways during the week. The ESL class I teach was cancelled today because we all come by métro and bus. The employees and the STM was given 48 hours on Wednesday to agree on something and provide the service again. I was wondering if I could use the métro tomorrow, so I just checked and found out that the service was going to be given from tonight on!

You might wonder why it bring me so much joy. You might think that since the service was still given at rush hours it should suffice. Well, not really, because rush hours are always pretty busy and everybody is sort of stuck in the buses and métro, now imagine the rush hour plus everybody else that usually come earlier or later in the morning wanting to get in the bus or the métro. This is not a nice picture. Serious, Montréal without buses and the métro is crazy. I would say that a great majority of people depend on this servic for daily obligations so it’s good news that we’ll be able to depend on it again…

As you must guess, the strike was about money (surprising eh). It reminds me that in life, the choices we make do not only affect ourselves. They affect people around us. We may care, we may not care. I’ve seen that problem everywhere. When we fight for our happiness we can easily hurt people and it can cost other people’s hapiness. That’s probably called self-centeredness. It’s important not to just look at ourselves, our needs, our desires. We must think about the people around and what they need, what’s most important. I know, these are new values we must add to our system, crazy eh? I am not being sarcastic here…