It’s not really an intended process, but it seems like I discus the realities of driving fairly frequently. I guess that’s just because, like here in a place like L.A., driving is such an everyday reality. And, while dancing through that reality, a lot of the true human condition is revealed.
 
For example, the other day, I had pulled up to a four-way intersection where each side had its own stop sign. Okay… You know how it goes, the person who arrived first goes, then the next, and the next.
 
It was my turn, so I started to drive through the intersection. But instead, this black Mercedes powers through, honking his horn, flipping me off, and I could see he was yelling at me. My turn, not his. But…
 
I returned the flip off. He drove through. I drove through. And, we were on a way.
 
The thing is, all this moment of memory did not need to happen. He could have just followed the rules. But, he did not. Me, I did nothing wrong. Yet, he somehow blamed me.
 
I think this goes to a lot of levels of life. There is all this human activity out there going on. We are all these little ants running around doing what we are doing—believing that what we’re doing is oh so important. But, let’s face facts. The only person it is important to is ourselves.
 
Of course, that little intersection thing is a very small blip on the grand scheme of life. But, it does illustrate how people want to shift the blame from themselves onto someone else.
 
I imagine that we have all encountered situations in life where we have done nothing wrong, yet someone wanted to blame us for what they either created or choose to be a part of.
 
If you feel like it, maybe take a minute and pull one of those moments up from your memory tape. Take a look at how it was created, what part you took in its creation, and what you did after you were blamed.

…Maybe even remember a time when you blamed someone for something that wasn’t their fault. Be honest!
 
You see, the thing in life is… …What it all comes down to is… Most people operate from a platform of selfishness. All they think about is only done to make themselves feel and live from a perspective of the things that they wish to feel and live. Thus, even if you are a part of what they are living, before they come to blame you, they wanted that something. Whatever that something may have been. Thus, they were walking, (or driving), on a path to get it. You simply became part of their equation. Then, when it did not go the way they had hoped, they decided to blame someone else; maybe you.
 
The main thing to do/the main thing to keep in mind, if one of these situations finds you, is that you never want to allow yourself to be sucked into that others individual’s melodrama of blame. They want to blame you; sure. Then, let them blame you. Because when it comes down to the fact of the fact, if you did nothing wrong, you did nothing wrong. Don’t let them make you do something wrong by allowing them to drag you into their game of blame.