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Dealing with Taffic Tension

Alright so I am willing to admit that I am one of those people who suffers from the awful fate of having a sliiiggghtly short fuse. Which means I am not exactly the most patient persons you will meet, and sometimes, when things seem to take longer than they ought to, I can get a little…shall we say agitated? And amongst the top 3 most annoying, stressful, makesmewanttotearmyhairout and hurt somebody situations I can find myself in also happens to be a completely unavoidable, and totally regular feature of our daily lives: TRAFFIC.


Crawling at a snails pace. Blaring horns.Cars, trucks, buses, cyclists, even pedestrians, all trying to squeeze into tiny lanes. Oh. My. God. These is special vein in my forehead which can literally burst at the thought of the torture of waiting endlessly to inch forward in a sea of vehicles all seemingly desperate to get to the exact same destination which I am heading to! Sound familiar? Am guessing it does for too many of us.

So I have decided to take matters into my own hands. The fact is the traffic ain’t gonna go nowhere girls and boys. If anything, its going to get worse. So whats the variable factor here? Me. And my reactions to it. Lets face it. Theres absolutely no point giving yourself a near heart attack on your daily commute when theres little you can do to control the situation. Ah, but here are a few ways you CAN make your road rage a little more bearable….

Leave early: make sure you give yourself an extra half an hour for unaccounted traffic snarls anytime you are setting out for a pre-scheduled meeting. That way, even If you do get stuck in a jam, you wont need to suffer from a panic attack.

Music for your ears: Drown out the sounds of those horns and lose yourself to the sounds of something soothing for you: Rabbi, Massive Attack, some Manu Chao maybe even a little rock..use your ipod or your radio and tune in, turn on, and zone out until you’re moving again.

Reading time – Carry your newspapers, laptop, even a book with you when you are on the road. So while you are waiting to get through that 20 minute red light, you can finish up the presentation due next week. Or read a chapter of your novel. Or just catch up on your daily horoscope. You’d be amazed how much calmer you will feel focusing on something other than the chaos outside your window.