“If someone took traffic signals personally we would judge them insane.

Yet this is exactly what life is doing to us. It tells us to come to a stop here. Or that this intersection is blocked or that a particular road has been rerouted through an inconvenient detour. We cannot argue or yell this problem away. We must simply accept it.

That is not to say we allow it to prevent us from reaching our ultimate destination. But it does change the roads we travel to get there and the duration of the trip.”

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