Full Circle

I live in the neighborhood where I lived ten years ago. Since then I’ve moved nine times between four different states.

It is emptier here now. Drivers treat Clifton like a freeway, rarely stopping for pedestrians in a crosswalk. Was it like this before, or was I just resigned to it? The bus runs once an hour, instead of every ten minutes. I see people on the bus that I did back then. Have they been going through the same patterns all this time? Are there young people on the bus now who will eventually think the same about me?