Instinctive Drive June 18 Instinctive Drive | Page 13

I was on the road, driving to work,
tient with people?
and in a hurry to meet an appoint-
ment. A car ahead was moving like a Will we be more patient and kind
turtle and not giving me way in spite with others if people had labels
of my continuous honking. I was on posted on their foreheads?
brink of losing my cool when I no-
ticed the small sticker on the car’s Labels like ——-
rear “ Lost my job”, “Fighting cancer”,
“ Physically challenged; Please be “Going through a bad divorce”,
patient.” “Suffering Emotional abuse“, ”Lost a
loved one”, “Feeling worthless”,
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and that changed everything. I im- “Financially screwed up”... and more
mediately went calm and slowed like these.
down. In fact, I got a little protective
of the car and the driver. I reached Everyone is fighting a battle we are
work few minutes late, but it was ok. not knowing about. The least we can
and then it struck me. Would I have do is be patient and kind. Let us re-
been patient if there was no sticker? spect the invisible labels.
Why do we need stickers to be pa-
—Guhan.