I realized this morning as I drove to work that it would be easy for me to roadrage in traffic, some drivers weaving between cars, and on the shoulder to get one car length ahead. In every sense of fairness, this traffic game, is not playing fairly, it seems that who ever is most willing to be aggressive wins.

My real thoughts were not of road traffic, but how can I keep my actions, and my values aligned? It would be easier to cut off the next driver that weaves in front of my car, but that isn’t what I believe in, I personally believe “live and let live”, even if that means I get to my destination a car length behind. My wife believes that bad traffic behavior is tempting karma or bad karma to visit, we all can agree that it isn’t safe as road rage is more prevalent these days.

As I have grown older and hopefully wiser, I have had to rethink what is actually important to me, and traffic shenanigans is at the bottom of my list these days, even though I once believed they were important, and I am sorry that I wasted my time, and resources on such foolishness.

I learned that as I felt gulity of my actions in traffic, because I knew that I was a better person than I was acting, but more importantly I understood that I was not the person I wanted to be, it was simply that I had an inner conflict and it was affecting my happiness. I believe that by not taking what happens on the road personally has helped as an everyday solution to my own happiness journey.

I fully understand that everyone has their own challenges, and I am working everyday to be the happiest form of myself, especially in traffic, and use my actions to align with my real values.

Thanks for taking time today, I will be the driver in traffic that is acting responsibly (hopefully)!