I paused on an overpass viewing the highway traffic coming and going. When I noticed a few on the right had made poor choices resulting in an unfortunate altercation. The right lanes almost immediately came to a halt as their sudden loss of momentum caused subsequent accidents. Backing up and in the ditch, the masses stymied and stopped by those decisions. It’s hard to tell if it’s a major accident or a series of minor incidents, nevertheless traffic stacked up. But then, I noticed the left lanes beginning to slow and they too came to a virtual halt. The left, not directly affected by the right, had become so absorbed with the events they too became slowed and bottlenecked. Although uncertain to the magnitude of the right’s calamity became embroiled in their own mess, but by their own choosing. The on and off-ramps completely stopped; so, no matter right or left, those wanting to leave or join the mainstream, in either direction, were trapped in the every growing morass. The left began to express anger at those on the right, but they were stuck by their own actions.
It seems that rather than accept the situation for what it is, and control our own actions, we are too quick to blame others for our own misfortune, real or imaginary. The jam we are in, or might be in, if of our own making, is for us to resolve. If, it is because we gawked in awe and disbelief, or curiosity, then we impeded ourselves; shame on us, not on them. Stay focused, attentive, and true to your own course and everything will work out. Treat the other drivers as your conscious dictates, but no less than you want to be treated.
Now, if we can only clear at least one lane on the right, maybe the left will stop gawking and honking.
simplebender 