The Law of the Garbage Truck

Hello again.

This time my blog, i will disclose a real incident happened during my outing yesterday 23 November 2008 with a real experience in other country, (back in year 2005).

How often do you let other people change your mood?

Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day?

The mark of a successful person is how quickly she/he can get back her/his focus on what's important.

Three years ago I learned this lesson in the back seat of a chartered bus back in Shanghai tour...

China is very popular with cyclists. Not because of poverty but due to their custom and convenient and that makes the beauty of the region.

Here's what happened: We were in this huge bus. We were scheduled to have lunch in this cozy local restaurant. We must hurry as there will be other group coming the same place for meal. Our bus driver is very dedicated driver. We have arrived at the restaurant and the restaurant is at road side, so there are limited parking space or none at all. There was this car blocking our suppose bus parking space. But the car driver ignored our bus driver and still remain motionless at the same place even though our bus driver had horned a few times...

Then our bus driver went down to signal the car driver to move, yet to no avail again. Suddenly the car owner came out and shouted and cursed in foul language at our bus driver. But our bus driver only listen, smile and gave a gentle gesture to the car driver. Not long enough, the car driver moved his car because inside our bus, we have 40+ passengers with our eyes looking at him and our driver. Guess he was feeling regretted.

Then i heard an uncle sitting in front of me taught me of what I now call 'The Law of the Garbage Truck.' He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home or on the streets.

Same goes with people driving in our own hometown. People drive in slow speed at the fast lane, when want to turn to fast lane from slow lane, they don't even bother to signal, and just turned to fast lane causing other people to get upset and tends to burst anger to other car cruisers. When that happened, could you (this other people) just calm down, and readjust yourself to a much soothing mood, smile and forget the lamer? You SHOULDN'T be another lamer. You are NOT better than he is if you charged your disappointment on other drivers!!!!!!!!

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, Love the people who treat you right, and get rid of those who don’t…. and pray for them.