Message #38364

[guest587]

I have another example... I parked my motorcycle once in a time limited parking area at a grocery store. I didn't know I'd run into a friend that would cause me to talk with him and exceed the allotted time in the parking space. As we walked towards my motorcycle some passerby goes... "Nice bike... FOR A DOUCHE BAG!!!" I asked him, "what? come again?" To which he replied, "OH YOU WANNA GO BRO!?!" "ILL KICK YOUR FUCKIN ASS." "IVE BEEN WATCHING YOU AND YOU TOOK THIS SPOT FOR MORE THAN 30 MINUTES AND DENIED AN OLD LADY FRONT ROW PARKING!!" Tempted to engage in a fight I saw some children and realized it wasn't worth it... When I told him he wasn't worth it he started shouting "THATS WHAT I THOUGHT PUSSY." Embarrassingly enough I threw some weak insults his way only to realize it was pretty dumb- I ended up shaking it off and laughing about it with my friend.

But I have been the one to accuse others without taking time to understand... So I'm not always the "victim" in these situations. Sometimes I am the antagonizer. As a youth, I intentionally egged angry people on but I had my come-uppins doubled as a response. I have to say thank God for meditation and yoga, which seems to have liberated me from this puzzling animalistic behavior people get when driving. In the end, there is no one outside our self to put blame on anything. How do we choose to live and respond... That's what's most important.