Turns out, there had been a fender bender a little earlier. You couldn’t really even tell any damage had been done, so…why the traffic? Why wasn’t everyone just driving through like normal?
And then we noticed something: every driver had been slowing down so they could look over their shoulder and see what was going on over there. Every single driver needed to get the low-down on what was going on in the other lane.
And as they paid attention to everybody else, their own car stopped accelerating. Their own car stopped driving. Their own car stopped going places.
Stay in your own lane.
How often do we act like this in our daily life? How often do we look over our shoulder to see what the person next to us is doing? How often do we let somebody else’s successes or failures or happiness or heartaches stop us from seeing the road stretched out ahead of us?