I was driving on the road early this morning to go to the gym when I had the feeling that I was going too slow. All around me, people were rushing as if a) there was a tornado chasing them down the road b) their house was on fire and they were rushing home to put it out or c) they were simply on their way to work. I decided that it was probably the last choice since is was rush hour and also because of the fact that I didn t see a tornado anywhere and certainly couldn t smell any smoke.
I was driving the speed limit; actually, I was approximately five miles per hour over the speed limit and people were just zipping by me left and right as if they hadn t a care in the world. What was I doing wrong then? I decided that there was nothing that I was doing wrong. I could feel myself starting to get angry as the third person cut me off in the last twenty minutes. It almost seemed as if the traffic was beginning to dictate the law. This is where it would have been nice to have a police officer witnessing these dangerous driving habits. I laughed to myself as I thought about the fact that the cops are almost never where you want them to be when you need them.
Road rage is something that will affect us all at some point in our lives whether we want it to or not. We become enraged when we feel personally affronted by other seemingly unscrupulous drivers who do not care a lick about what it is we are doing on the roadways because to them, they own the roads anyway. Earlier today, I was on a two lane section of a highway in the lane beside a place where cars merge onto the highway (which is always a bad place to be). In any case, this person came up from the merge lane, hesitated and then proceeded to get in front of my vehicle and slow down significantly, which then caused me to slow down, which then caused the guy (who was already tailgating me) to have to slam on his brakes. And then what happened, the guy behind me, the guy in front of me, the guy behind him AND me all tried to get into the other lane. Fuming, I turned my indicator off and remained in the slow lane.
If you are a victim of road rage, how do you calm yourself down? What techniques do you imply to keep you from losing your temper? For some people, turning on the radio is a great distraction. Meanwhile, for others, looking out the window or listening to soothing music seems to work wonders. It simply depends on what your preferences are. In my case, I have found the most effective means for dealing with road rage is to simply take slow deep breaths and “think happy thoughts”. You would be amazed at how well this works!
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