Frustrations
Today I was taking little John to piano lessons. We got caught up in a huge traffic jam. I got so upset with the delay. I just could not understand why people were driving so slow, and not going when the light was green. It caused us to be majorly late. ugh. Of course, if I had left more than eight minutes to get all the way to colerain, I would have missed the traffic.
Coming home we went through the same intersection. They were hauling away the cause of the traffic jam and my frustrations. Two vehicles involved in an accident. One was obviously cut in pieces in an attempt to free the passengers. One of them eventually passed away.
I couldn’t help but stop and pause. How quickly their lives went from fun to over in a split second. And then the thought that I was so selfish. I wanted the traffic to move. I’m sure that the kids in the car would have loved to still be on their way. I was inconvenienced, their lives would never be the same.
I couldn’t have known what was going on. I couldn’t see the intersection but I could have thought it through. I could have left the house earlier. For me it was an inconvenience. For them a life changing event.
