Anger has now become a predominant problem for the people of Chennai on the roads. Guess what, it is all because of the traffic which is the main culprit in the eruption of people’s anger. There can be many reasons behind this anger but many are not realising the fact that it can be reduced if we are sensible. Our world is set up with boundaries and every action is governed by a set of rules but unfortunately many do not even bother to consider one of the basic rules-traffic signals. They are not ignorant but they are adamant to abide the rules. One cannot deny the fact that ours is a metropolitan city, so we have signals everywhere and every time we wait for the green signal to come we may lose couple of minutes and nothing can be done about it since we live in a city. It seems that nobody is willing to accept this simple truth. Having said this there are people who are willing to accept the rules but even that is not possible these days, when a person calmly waits for the signal they call him a fool and some go a step further by persuading him to move by blowing horn constantly and sorry to say this but most of our own MTC buses does this quite often than any other vehicle.
Few weeks back while I was travelling through Nungambakkam I witnessed two people indulging in a fight. One was well dressed and looked like someone working in a corporate company and the other one was a call taxi driver, I could see their face red in anger and the reason for this rage was nothing but the call taxi driver had been blowing the horn continuously even after learning there is a traffic jam. If you go around the city you can observe scuffles like these, but do not think it cannot be prevented. Few of the important things we have to follow while driving are -Keeping anger away while driving is more important ,try to create a pleasant mood while driving some good soundtracks would do, use horn only when it is necessary remember horn sounds are not soothing and more importantly obey the traffic rules.
Pleasant Smile
Ignore people who try to get on your nerves by verbally abusing you if you drive slowly instead give way for them to go because it is not a place to show our ego. A smile speaks million words so try to throw a pleasant smile on them because people always appreciate warm gestures. Make sure your smile is pleasant enough because there are people whose smile looks sarcastic and remember a sarcastic smile would worsen things.
Ignore people who try to get on your nerves by verbally abusing you if you drive slowly instead give way for them to go because it is not a place to show our ego. A smile speaks million words so try to throw a pleasant smile on them because people always appreciate warm gestures. Make sure your smile is pleasant enough because there are people whose smile looks sarcastic and remember a sarcastic smile would worsen things.
