“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is
patience.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am going to
propose a crazy idea, so crazy that I hope you might go along with it and
encourage others to do so, too. As I
drive around my community, I hear what feels like the endless honking of car
horns – or beeping, as we used to call it.
As far as I can tell, this is not honking the horn to avoid an accident –
which, of course, makes sense. This is
honking to make the person in the car in front of you move faster or turn
faster. It seems to be honking based on
impatience. If you even stop for a
moment to think about it, honking does not help matters at all. You only succeed in startling or annoying the
other person. So my crazy idea is
this: What if we decide – in the spirit of
Thanksgiving and Christmas – not to honk at others in traffic unless it is to
avoid an accident? When someone is not
moving as fast as we would like, we can instead take a breath, count one blessing
or say a quick prayer – all of which can only help us and are more in keeping
with the season.
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