How I Soothe My Mind While Sitting in a Traffic Jam
Don’t let a temporary delay have a negative effect on the rest of your day. Break your concentration and you will beat your anger.
Hurry up and wait! That’s the expression I use to express moving from one stop light to another while driving to and from work. As I sit motionless, waiting for yet another stoplight to change to green, I begin to notice people in the cars around me. they represent a wide array of emotions. Some are party-goers, jamming to the beat of tunes I’ve never heard before. Others are doleful as if they are stupefied from the stress of the day, blindly following the car in front of them.
Then, there are those who are yakking with someone on their phones, oblivious to lights changing green in front of them. A quick honk of the horn will get them moving, but they still aren’t paying attention to the road. They are the ones who go 30 mph in a 45 mph zone, which is quite vexing to those behind them, who have places to be and things to do other than sit behind a knucklehead who prefers talking over driving.
Last to be mentioned, but first in everyone’s minds, is the aggressor! You know who I’m talking about. They are the first to beep and shove a middle finger your way if you should happen to slip up and not drive the way they think you should.
They are also the ones who will change lanes in front of you suddenly, then slam on their brakes because the car in front of them has stopped. These “swoop and stop” artists are the bane of drivers everywhere.
That happens all too frequently in every driver’s experience, whether it is in town traffic, or expressway traffic. They are the ones who will change lanes suddenly, then change lanes again as they approach their exit from the highway. We have all been there, and most of us have probably done the exact same thing. Sometimes we get trapped by the traffic around us and are left with no option but to quickly squeeze over two lanes real fast so we don’t miss our desired exit.
We never think to go to the next exit, turn around, and go back to our preferred exit so everyone can safely get to their individual destinations. Instead, we prefer not to deal with that hassle…
