When I was
driving home from work yesterday I was stopped for speeding. It could
have been worse than a simple speeding ticket since my insurance pink
slip was expired. I have valid insurance but I forgot to replace the
pink slip. Thankfully the cop was a nice guy and he let me off with a
ticket for not having the proper paperwork and he also reduced my
speeding ticket. I learn pretty much everything the hard way.
Fast
forward to today at work; I was talking about martial arts movies with a
co-worker and we got to talking about Ip Man. I started to think that
if Ip Man drove a car, he probably wouldn't speed. In my mind I imagined
that he would drive calmly and courteously. On the way home today I was
determined to be calm on the drive home, just like Ip Man, and it was
actually quite easy. I found that by staying calm, I was able to drive
at a reasonable speed without getting upset and, by driving at a
reasonable speed, I was able to stay calm. I also found that when my
mind wasn't occupied with anger and frustration, I was able to think
about other things and so I'm going to try out some audiobooks again and
see if I have better results.
The
cool thing is that I did it when I had a slow driver in front of me and
traffic was reasonably heavy. I'm not so naive to think that it's going
to be easy every time but I did it once so I can do it again.
Cory Smid
http://kungfucory.blogspot.ca/
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