Be good. Don't get angry!

As a ritual, I drop my wife to office every working day. As a ritual, we end up running 10-15 mins late. I am an owl type, hence mornings are usually slothfully slow for me. This irritates her. While she gets ready in 20 mins flat (5 minutes added, thankfully, because of the dressing table that we have now), I end up taking almost 50 mins. This also means she gets more time to sleep (aargh!).

As we menace through the rough traffic & pot holed roads and reach her office, she says the same thing to me everyday.

"Be good. Don't get angry!"

I smile back and drive on to my office. I was wondering about this once. I was outraged for a bit - What does she mean? Am I a cruel heartless beast that she has to ask me to be good everyday? After calming down in an instant thinking she knows better, I gave it a deeper thought. In general, we forget to be good and get irritated with all the small and big things that happen to us or around us everyday. The roads are bad, the work is too much, the colleagues are not supportive, the boss doesn't give the increment, the parking fees are too high, bikers overtake recklessly, grocery shopping is a pain, weekend movie ticket rates are high, some relative is upset, girlfriend is upset, wife is upset, people don't form queues, metros are too crowded, work happens not the way I like, hell this world functions in totally wrong and insane manner!

And then she says - "Be good. Don't get angry!" 

You know what - she is right. It won't change anything in any case. Rather than getting angry, if we let these moments pass over us (until it is too big to be passed) - there is no point in risking yourself with high BP or heart diseases. You can read more of her zen like fun thoughts here.

Meanwhile, be happy, eat good, exercise a bit and hope that you don't get traffic the next Monday morning!