The big takeaway is that you can’t win a confrontation with someone who has nothing to lose. When you decide to trade insults or posture back at an enraged person, you’re handing them the keys to your future. You might be “right” about the car accident, but being right doesn’t matter if you’re not around to see the insurance check. It’s a gut-check on realizing that walking away isn’t about being weak. It’s about being the only one in the situation smart enough to value their own life.
Yesterday morning, I woke up to my partner telling me she had just been sideswiped while driving the kids to school.
No injuries. The car is damaged, but drivable. Everyone was shaken. B,ut after the Road Rage Shooting last week here in Conway, South Carolina, the news hit a little harder than it normally would.
Just days before, a traffic accident on a familiar stretch of road ended with a man dead, another man charged with murder, and families permanently altered.
One situation ended with insurance claims and shaken nerves.
The other ended with gunfire and a body on the roadside.
The difference in the situation wasn’t simply fate. It was choice.
By Mitch Goerdt

