I recently invested about 6 hours in an online Defensive Driving course sponsored by my car insurance company. It cost me time and money in return for a discount on my insurance premium. Good trade off! Now that I have finished the course, I strongly recommend taking the time to learn more about aggression, etc. Here are just a couple of things I learned I would like to share. When a person gets behind the wheel of a vehicle, the danger of one person’s action creating another person’s reaction is heighten by our state of mine. Anger is usually the result of disappointment, suspicion or pride. Actions by others can quickly turn into loss of personal control leading to an aggressive driving reaction. Classic example of this is one driver’s proper action traveling the speed limit being threatened by a second aggressive driver’s reaction. He has to slow down so tries to pass over the speed limit which could cause more evasive reactions by oncoming vehicles. Second driver’s loss of personal control of the situation became aggressive perhaps causing an accident. Please take the whole course to learn more but proves my purpose of this message. We all want control and when we have someone who acts beyond our control we can easily get angry which then can turn into a battle. The 3rd law of physics stated below applies not only to physics but to all aspects of life.
Newton’s third law of Physics states that “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”.
Life is full of challenges that we can not control ourselves. we recently made a trip to Australia and visited relatives that have been full of challenges. Years earlier the family came together to search for a lost relative. The whole country reacted with compassion and an urgency to find the lost boy before it was too late. Sadly, the boy was found too late. I truly believe his Spirit lives on to continue strengthening the hurting family. Now, after our wonderful visit with our relatives, tragedy struck again this time with a disease that took the life of a dear man who I had come to love as if he were my brother. In fact, he is my brother in Christ. I know though his family is in deep grief now, they too know that he has now exchanged his earthy body with a Spiritual body. He will continue along with his father and his dear lost nephew to guide and strength those left behind to reach their ultimate purpose. In 1 Cor. 10:10, Paul encourages brothers and sisters to agree with each other and not be divided into rival groups but be of the same mind and same purpose.
For each action, there is a reaction. If the action of others are aggressive then we are in danger of retaliation. However, if the action is calming, then we have a better chance to react in a calm manner. All of us have control issues and none of us like change but change is inevitable in life. How we react to change makes all the difference to our own state of being and those of others.
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