If you’re driving and someone cuts you off, the car behind is too close and the one on the left invades your lane, it can be stressful and overwhelming. Then you remember that you just need to pay attention, stay calm and carry on. You suffer less when you don’t allow it to get under your skin. Same for when life hits you with multiple ‘opportunities’ for growth. Remember that much of the discomfort you feel is self-created. When you have a story about how wrong something is, you suffer. When you accept it…
You cruise down the road.
Jarl and Steve
Nice metaphor. Though . . . I guess it wouldn’t be à propos to extend it to calling it “defensive living”!
I am smiling at the automotive image you have invoked. Only in California! We don’t have enough cars around here to ever create such a psychic disaster. Here we are reduced to getting mad at the rain or steaming about the stupidity of someone we thought knew better. It is a Yankee joke that half our population has moved to the Southwest, and that we think that is a good place for them. Better not to have jobs than to have too much company!
But fear not: We create just as many stupid ways to suffer.
Love, Larry