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Our Beautiful Planet Earth With Lousy Drivers

by

Douglas G. McLeod

In our modern world, we feel safe and do not think something will happen to us, or to our love ones.  I believe in being ready and prevent awful things from happening before it is too late.  This means, Protection and Self-Defense, Health, Spiritual, Protecting the Environment for now and the future, for all generations, but also for plant life, and animals that normally would live properly if mankind was not there destroying many things they need for greed and now for hate.  We all have to unite on this planet as a whole community, even with all our differences, religious beliefs, political views, and treat "Earth" with respect.  If this was done, and we would worked out our differences without violence and hate, with destruction of our planet because of greed, then we all would be living in "Heaven"!  Have you ever walked in the woods that have not been disturbed for thousands of years, or jungles in Hawaii in bamboo forests, or gone snorkeling in the warm waters of undisturbed clean fresh water and look at all the beauty below the waves and water in the oceans, I am sure there are other planets with beauty, but just look in our solar system, and we are so lucky living in an enriched planet called Earth, with so much beauty, you could not in two life times see all the wonders of our world.  Are you ready to lose it all?  Because of hate, greed, and because we do not know our friends from other countries, because they have different views than you or they have other view points?  Corporate America can survive using the Green Peace method, allowing Earth to grow naturally and stop our pollution of the soil and air, and more important the pollution we are doing to the children's minds of this planet.  How can they learn, if we are not examples to them?

Little things will bring large changes, that will be a beginning, like simple things, such as recycling, picking up a little trash, even if it is not yours in a parking lot at a mall, or send a little money to starving kids to other countries, once our children see their parents doing little things like that, then they will say, "mom there is some trash over there, can I put it in a trash can", seems simple, but life was made to be simple, then soon more trash will be picked up, more beauty will show through, even at a parking lot, and soon we all we have such good habits of making this world better, people will become nicer, and friendlier, and then, maybe some day, there won't be borders from one county to another, because we all will live in peace, and Earth is equally shared from the youngest to the oldest, from the poorest to the richest, and soon, people will even talk to each other on the street, or at least say hi! 

One thing has to stop, just because you are in your car, do you really have to scream at a person because they made a mistake while driving, or are a bad driver, when you do this, you stress yourself out, and everyone in the car, and again your children learn from your behavior.  I have been driving in cars with other people the last 10 months, because I lost my car, and not one person who I have driven with can drive calm, without saying something negative, when someone does not drive perfect.  I seen a few try, but still had problems with a person that did not follow the driving code or did something stupid.  So, I have been taking the bus, and I never hear, the entire people in the bus or almost none, all point out other cars because of  bad driving from other people on the road, because they are relaxed or into something else other than watching for bad drivers, and so, the people in the bus do not scream at them, many of the bus drivers do, which is wrong, and they should look for another job, because I do not want to be in a bus with a bus driver that is constantly screaming at other vehicles and the way others drive.  No offense to taxi drivers, but we are starting to sound like them, in New York City at 5pm, and they scare me because they get so emotional, and now many drivers in America are acting the same way.

 This road rage is getting so out of hand, it is unbelievable people getting so mad.  Most my conversations when I am with a friend, and I mean almost any friend, when I am with them in their car, I am hearing them tell me how bad that person is driving and want me to get involved in this unnecessary stress, that way we both can stream and get stressed about someone who already turned down another street or is out of sight.  Yes there are bad drivers everywhere on every road in the world, but this road rage, is so bad, you can not even have a nice drive anymore, because at least 50% of the people are so upset with other drivers, they cannot relax.  It is almost funny, except that stress builds up, and will hurt your mind and body, if you do this daily.  Try, to drive one day, without getting mad, if you cannot, then, think about it, how many others are driving with this type of emotions, that are not necessary.  I even get mad at times, but try to catch myself, we all are humans, but is it really worth spending time getting so angry at a bad driver, will your anger help his driving?  It only hurts you, especially if you just got off work, relax, so when you get home, your body will be ready for more relaxation, and trust me, we all can use that in these times of crises in our world.  The world needs to relax, and solve many problems, especially people problems, before there is so much hate, it cannot be stopped.   I read a book on meditation, that had many types of view points and many ways to calm yourself, relax, and even meditate on a so called negative situation.  I use to drive from Santa Cruz to San Jose, and many times there was traffic jams, what I did, as the book explained to me, I looked into the forest or another site, that I usually did not have time to see, because of the speed I was driving, and tried to spot beauty, and believe it or not, behold, I found a lot, or I would hope I was in a car with another person that wanted an intelligent conversation, which was nice.  I love my father, but one of the main things I remember from my childhood was his non-stop screaming at other people in vehicles, and if they were really bad, he would say "it must be a woman driver", but he was a sexist as most men his age in the 50's were, but, I told my spiritual daughter, about my Dad, and she understood why I laughed when she got so upset while driving and her getting mad ever few miles at someone.  I just joke with her, but it is not a joke, so lets try to relax while we drive and think of a good thought, have a good conversation, or turn on some good music and make our trip fun.

Not Much Fun... smiles.... How many people do you think are screaming at each other???

Think of being somewhere else in bad situations!