Pressurized People

I look around me and everywhere I see them - people blowing off steam because the pressure is more than the pot can bear. They do it on Dr. Phil, Maury and, definitely, Jerry Springer. They do it on the roads, in grocery stores, in the mall(look out Christmastime!) and have temper tantrums that their children would've got a spanking for 25 years ago. Some take it to the gym and run until the pressure is left panting on the floor, deflated. Some try really hard to transfer their pressure on to other people-especially in traffic! I know the moron (who REALLY wanted to go faster than me so I almost couldn't make my turn yesterday) hasn't hit the reading level yet whereby he might read this. Everyone makes mistakes when they drive-the insurance rates bear testimony. Getting angry never does any good and if it really "makes you feel better" then it is really hard to tell that the getting angry brought relief of any kind. My sister hit a deer once-two weeks after my dad and brother were killed in an auto accident-and people were yelling at her while she could only helplessly stand there and cry. Where is our humanity? Our demonstrations of all those negative emotions just tear us up. There has to come a time where we are more polite with each other, where we count to 10 before we talk, where we try to see the world through someone else's eyes or walk a mile in someone else's moccasins. I know that if the person who so rudely gave me the finger was looking me in the eye, it wouldn't happen. Its the freedom of being a rude uncaring person safe in their own little box that causes people to do things like that. I'm not going to change people but I have found a lovely little place down in Florida where life is lived much mellower and I will spend more time there as the years go by. Its too bad we're such hopeless cases.