Which side of the road are you traveling on? 🤔
You better believe I’m not the one sitting in that traffic jam.
Oh I’ve sat in my fair share. Particularly when living in the MD/VA/DC area in my 20’s. I remember timing my travel to the middle 3 or 4 hours of the day, just to be able to avoid the sitting in running cars that happens there. This was more than 2 decades ago - can’t imagine what it’s like now.
And, of course, I grew up in NYC. The whole place could be a traffic jam.
But when I was 27, we (John, Aleda and I) moved to Montana. There was next to no one or actually no one on the highways and no speed limit. I was hooked.
It took making decisions that were - it turns out - from my own Authority. My body has chosen so much of my movement (and stillness) all these years.
Has it always been easy? No.
Has it been worth it? Absolutely.
From Human Design Australia -
“Most people are convinced that as long as they are not overtly forced to do something by an outside power, their decisions are theirs, and that if they want something, it is they who want it. But this is one of the great illusions we have about ourselves. A great number of our decisions are not really our own but are suggested to us from the outside; we have succeeded in persuading ourselves that it is we who have made the decision, whereas we have actually conformed with expectations of others, driven by the fear of isolation and by more direct threats to our life, freedom, and comfort.” ~Erich Fromm
(Art: Photograph by Andreas Feininger)