The Drive Home

 

There I was moving right along....confident I would be home quickly, 

Then I hit the freeway!  

 

 

What is traffic time like for you?

Can you find yourself in this traffic jam?

   



The other day I was starting to feel the crunch of traffic and I was getting that usual frustration I get when drivers "don't go with the flow" Usually at that point I can only see the cautious drivers as "problematic"  Maybe where you're from traffic doesn't get like this? I realize now that uh maybe the "problematic" drivers are the inpatient, frustrated drivers who are always in a hurry to get nowhere fast!



And as I sat in traffic, which by the way for me is NOT an everyday affair, I was going slower and slower getting angrier and angrier! to such a point that I could feel my heart rate increasing, I COULD FEEL myself tensing up! Road Rage? irrational emotions, and unchecked angry thoughts on top of an already tiring day....That's when I realized how intense traffic rush hour must be for those people that deal with it daily.  I stepped back and calmed down.  Why was I so angry? It was a rare moment of not really being crunched for time. I didn't have to zig zag through lanes to get moving, I didn't have to be so close to the car in front of me. But, I was considering the wasted time. We drive to save time and end up sitting in traffic wasting that precious time we thought we'd save. The ironies of life. As I inched my way thru traffic that day, I chose to use that time up wisely. I began to ponder on "good things" and I considered my blessings and I do believe that traffic did speed up a little when I quit being so problematic with my impatience