Awake Again

Here we are. Don't worry; "we" is referring to my little dog and me ;) Last night, wide awake until plenty after daylight. Slept for a few hours and was awake again. Facing the beautiful winter day. You know what? I went out to run some errands and I believe everyone and their out-of-state relatives were out, as well. Hustling and bustling to get last minute Christmas commercializing taken care of. O'kay- so they were last minute shopping. There. That prolly made someone happy. I don't know who you are, but you know who you are :) Hmmm. Anyways, I noticed that the people I passed who were walking into and/or out from the stores were actually very friendly for this time of year. You know, here anyways, seems like most everyone is in such a hurry and/or on a "do or die" mission and they will run you over going into the stores, seem to want to play bumper cars or hit-and-run with their buggies (grocery carts) inside the stores (reminds of this one time on a trip, in Boston, inside Marshall's(or was it T.J. Max?) when I was culture shock-initiated to the NE. I was standing in front of, and right at, a long stand of hanging clothes and was looking at these items and a lady squeezed her way right in front of me to ge a look at the clothes on the hanging stand, herself. OK. I reeeeeally do mean ever bit of "squeezed her way in." I couldn't believe it. I'm sure I commented something like, "How rude." Who knows? Maybe it wasn't really that nice. I might've tried to match her actions with my words. Honestly, I don't remember.The sad thing was when I left the stores of friendly people greeting each other amazingly, like "deep southerners", as soon as I re-enterred (the word re-enterred doesn't look right) my truck and into traffic, even in parking lot traffic, (was it the same sweet-greeting people I'd just interacted with?), people were driving like they were out for blood. No joke. It was so sad to see. There were a few wrecks that I saw. Why? Why even that many in that small radius? Why do people feel they have to be so aggressive in driving? Mean? That's what I'm talking about- plain mean. You know, it's my belief that the best place ever to practice patience is in serious traffic. Try it. Go ahead. It won't hurt or kill you to let someone or two or even three someones pull out into the road in front of you. WARNING: DO NOT, I repeat- DO NOT look in the rear-view mirror until you "semi-master" being patient. If you do look in the mirror, you may see things from the driver(s) behind you that trigger your temper and then it's too easy to forget you have a choice of your attitude and outlook. So, just try it. Let someone over in your lane and wave them over with a warm wave. If you do practice Road-Reason (rationalism?.) everytime you you drive, you'll start to come in check with having patience instead of Road-Rage. Well, it's 5 o'clock somewhere. Actually, it is here. OK. I have something very serious to talk about. I just recognized that perhaps I have detoured my own thoughts so that I would be too tired to make this  matter known to everyone just yet. Hmm. Am I having a Real moment of uncovering some things that may be true? That would be great. And, what is the truth is that I really am tired now. For this blog-round, I am done. This is tiring and draining work. I WILL succeed and I WILL overcome, with the help of God, if it is his will. Goodnight world. Have a great holiday.