I caught myself talking about traffic the other day.
Not because it was unusually bad.
Just…the kind of traffic I expected.
I already knew the road was being worked on.
I knew it would probably slow things down.
So why did I talk about it like it caught me by surprise?
That thought stayed with me longer than I expected.
Then I started thinking about some of the other things that seem to find their way into everyday conversations.
The weather didn’t cooperate.
Something costs a lot more than I remember.
Technology changed again just when I thought I had it figured out.
None of those things are really unexpected.
In one way or another, I’ve experienced them all before.
Still, they seem to have a way of becoming part of the story.
The more I thought about it, the more I realized there might be a difference between knowing something is going to happen…
…and expecting it not to affect me when it does.
For some reason, that thought brought me back to the body.
It’s adjusting all the time.
Most of the time, I don’t even notice it.
Yesterday doesn’t have to look exactly like today for my body to respond to what’s there.
It just keeps adjusting.
And that got me thinking about the traffic again.
Maybe it wasn’t really about traffic in the first place.
Maybe it was about how easily something I already knew was coming could still feel like an interruption.
And now I find myself wondering how many of the things I think of as interruptions…
…might not have been interruptions at all.
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