The Night Everything Changed
At 25, I was working as a school bus driver. It wasn’t glamorous, but it paid the bills. That was enough for me at the time.
I had just dropped off the last child before Christmas break and was heading back to the depot when I spotted him on the side of the road.
He wasn’t wandering.
He was moving with purpose — slowly, but determined.
I stopped the bus.
When I asked if he was okay, he looked at me with dry, exhausted eyes and said quietly, “My mom died today.”
There are moments in life when you know nothing will ever be the same after them. That was one of them.He told me people were trying to take him somewhere, and he had run away. He didn’t want to go with strangers.
