Early morning contemplation while driving. Road Rage. It has happened to everyone at one time or another. I know that it happens to me when I feel I am getting late, and coincidentally the universe gives me more slow pokes or rash drivers to cut me off, in order to get me to wild up, so I can calm down.

My usual morning commute has changed its pattern lately requiring me to go through 2 more cities with their own levels of traffic congestion on the highway. Yesterday was no different. People trying to overtake me when I am already above the speed limit, but I am thinking “ yo buddy, I cant go any faster, there is a car in front of me !” It is like drivers behind me think that by driving faster they will get to their destination faster. ( I do that too btw).

So here I am driving away, and a police car zips past me with its sirens and lights flashing. A little further I see a digital road sign “ Exit 39 RAMP CRASH”.

My heart slows with sadness, hoping that everyone is well, and there I see it. A fire engine, police, no ambulance, and a car fully ablaze crashed into the side. A fire that was so hot that if I had put my hand out on the highway I could have felt its heat. An inferno. No one could have survived that. I prayed as a witnessed this horror. We hear about these accidents all the time, but to witness it just a few minutes ahead of my drive was jarring to the nervous system.

2 contemplations.

Firstly, nothing is for granted. Not material goods or possessions, not family, not job or career, not even life. It is wise to stay present, observe as a witness to the unfolding of life with an attitude of surrender, detachment and awe. To become more patient, listen, and to slow down. It is much more comforting to harmonize with the frequency of life’s flow, rather than end it abruptly in a blaze. We each have an intention when we wake up in the morning of our day, is going to go, beyond that we have no control.

Secondly, road rage is synonymous with anger. The fury of that fire reminded me of that. Anger consumes. Hate consumes. Judgments consume. Fears consume. Doubts consume. Like fire. There is nothing that can withstand fire, and so too nothing can withstand all these emotions. They consume and leave us to cinders. How we grow from the those ashes or how we extinguish the fire before it begins, is what helps us evolve and follow our true path of love.

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I love you