This is the pertinent part: Do you ever get into power struggles with other drivers? Maybe those who seemingly ignore the "Right lane closed ahead" signs and then want to be let into the line of traffic. Perhaps we decide they don't deserve to be let into the lane.
Why does that bother us? In the scheme of things, what difference does it make? Are we teaching them a lesson by not letting them in? Have we been caught in a similar position through no fault of our own? Why do we allow ourselves to get emotionally ensnared? What is it in us that makes it so important to win, when there really is no win. There isn't even a competition, except within us.
For me the answer is, there are rules and rules are to be followed. "Good" people follow the rules, "bad" people break rules and then expect to be treated like good people. "Bad" people deserve punishment. (I was a very black/white thinker) It doesn't take a neuroscientist to figure out where that comes from for me. The task is untangling all that programming in my present life. Disengaging from the past.
Then we can stop allowing the past to control us.
Me 57/H 58 M36 S 2.5yrs R 12/13
Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering. Caroline Myss
