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Old Oct 18, 2006, 09:55 PM
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I keep thinking about perception and taking things personally too. I went to the post office today and there was a car sitting crooked in two spaces and that made me angry and then I suddenly remembered that I had no way of knowing what was happening when that car got there; could have been another car, now gone, that was crooked forcing that car to park crooked or maybe the person whose car it is is handicapped and needs extra space or the parking lot has been paved with tiny spaces that are too small for today's cars and the person needed/wanted more space, etc. At any rate, it wasn't either my problem or something someone did just to spite me :-) That all reminded me of when I see trucks in lanes where no trucks are supposed to be or trucks/commercial vehicles on parkways where they're not supposed to be, etc. and how I'd get all upset until I realized the rules are for the road, not the people, the road wears out easier so that all isn't about or "for" me either. I get so busy running the world that I don't have enough time to get my own act straight :-)
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