Stop Lights
I look at yellow lights. I look at yellow lights to anticipate when the light in front of me will turn green.
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I am obsessed with anticipating not only my next move but the next move of everyone around me. I wonder what my motives are for this. Do I act this way because I want to be prepared. Possibly. Probably. I hate surprises. But maybe I do this out of impatience. Maybe I stare at green lights waiting for them to turn yellow because I find there is nothing else to be done. Maybe I think knowing when the light turns yellow gives me some sort of control. Who’s to say. Certainly not me.
But I’ve come to learn that there is a lesson to be made out of most actions we take. So I intend to dive deeper into why I stare at stop lights the way I do. And whether It stems from impatience, a lack of control, or a fondness of stoplights, it likely won’t stop in my lifetime.
