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Robert Tamayo

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Get Over It

There's no need to engage in road rage.

Sometimes, it's just boys being boys. Other times, people get actually crazy.

Either way, just avoid it.

In "real life", outside your car, you wouldn't attack someone or threaten them for getting near you or cutting them off. They can even bump into you and it wouldn't draw your notice in a crowded place.

But in cars, somehow everything is a slight.

All I can say is that it's not that it's not worth it - we've all seen action movies and know how cool it would be to get in a high speed chase like Road Warrior - it's that you don't have any real problems to get upset about.

In his Meditations, Marcus Aurelius wrote, "Take away thy opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away."

If you take away the thought that a car cutting you off has harmed you, then the harm is gone! It was all in your head. Check your body. Are there any scratches? Bruises? Anything different now other than your own feelings?

Then it's over. There is no problem. Move on, because it's all good.

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