I know a guy, quite close
Who is smart, thoughtful, gentle, forgiving
But to our incredulous shock
The moment he gets behind the wheel of a car
He goes from Jeckyll to Hyde
A sudden Neanderthal
Enraged and shaking his fist at every small encounter.
Everyone at fault for something
While he himself flawlessly tailgates, swerves, and artfully casts middle fingers
Totally inconsistent with the young man we know
There is something happening here,
What it is ain’t exactly clear
Think, think, thinking.
His anger with everyone else on the road is a displacement of something deeper
But What?
Ah Ha!
Of course, most obvious
Why is a thoughtful, forgiving young man so angry with others without justification?
Because. He is actually angry at himself!
At what?
At his own inadequacy.
Well.. I believe he has a condition … with his visual perception
A timing problem of sorts,
He is missing a piece of spatial cognition, he can’t properly integrate and synchronize the movement of traffic
As far as he can see, every little thing happening around him is popping up unexpected – IDIOTS he roars!
A condition like this is difficult to self diagnose
Though I sense he has glimpsed it because he is perceptive that way
And because he is a good man, he is equally angry at himself for blaming others when the fault is really his
So in the end he just blames the world
Though to his credit
He does so with a slightly comical and charismatic flourish.
How many of us can say the same?
