Lets use a nice peaceful blue ink.  It has finally occurred to me that the solution to these effing stoopid idiot drivers that keep doing stuff I just hate and nearly killing me in traffic – the solution may be in myself?

I went and looked on the internet about road rage and I found an amazing article, from a couple decades ago, a serious study of road rage.  It points out the initial physical anger and adrenaline reaction to being nearly killed by an idiot driver wears off in a few minutes.  Road rage continues past that point in an escalating fashion by choice, because a car load of naked ladiess blowing kisses to me afterwards wouldn’t likely trigger my rage, but someone who ignores me and doesn’t care that they nearly killed me, causes me to feel slighted or inconvenienced, they will sometimes set me off as I take it on myself to teach them a lesson so they won’t do it again!  Thats the mistake.

The article was very therapeutic for me to read, and has caused me to try to shift my thinking now on my commute.  I try now to imagine the object is to see that everyone on the road gets where they need to go, not just me.  To realize there are human beings in those cars, real people who just like me will sometimes make mistakes.  And that there are a lot of bad drivers out there, but the roads have to be designed and run so that most of them can still get around too.

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