Every day you are presented with choices regarding who gets something that’s better, you or the other guy?What if every time you could, you let it be the other guy? Specifically, let it be the other guy when you’re driving.
And on the freeway, let the other guy pull in front of you. I’m always taken aback when the person in the lane next to me actually speeds up as soon as they see I’ve put on my blinker.
Go ahead, stranger, you take Parking Space Smiley. I can find another spot.
Do they think they score extra points for successfully defending their lane?
My observation is that drivers have been steadily becoming more assertive about their driving as if they are in a competition. It often doesn’t even seem to be about being selfish or rude or in a hurry. It’s more like they have a video game mentality; being the top scorer in the game is of the utmost importance.
In life (and driving) points are not given for shaving seconds off tasks, if it is achieved by blocking others’ attempts to progress or by refusing to yield. What if every time you could you let the other guy “win,” you did? There’d be a lot more kindness and a lot less frustration. Yielding is not a weakness; it’s a kindness.
Smile. Be happy. Yield.
Ruth
Middle Finger adopts
a more optimistic outlook!
Here’s to this being the only
middle finger you see while driving.
We all know the driver that zips in and out, cutting people off and raising everyone’s blood pressure, does it for naught. That aggressive “point seeking” car is still just about where they would have been had they been relaxed. Actually they are not in the same place they’d have been if they were relaxed. They are in a place of agitation and anger. This is also true in life, that aggressive “point seeking” person doesn’t really get ahead.
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