Road rage is damaging

To save people’s lives on the road one must avoid road rage every time he or she is driving. When two vehicles collide with each other, our first reaction usually tends to be to abuse the other party and the one provoked tends to get into a fistfight with the other party, which can sometimes be fatal.

“An example of this is my friend Sultan Haider who was involved in a road accident wherein he slapped the other individual who fell on the ground. Treat an accident as an accident and not intentional because nobody intentionally causes such mishaps,” says Mujtaba Haider.

“Confront accidents calmly when no damage is done to the vehicle and the other person. If one can exercise self-restraint and control his temper, one can be saved from a lot of hardship,” says Jafar Hussain. “If I were pregnant, I would surely have a miscarriage, is the thought that I have every day when I am in my car on city roads. The bumps and potholes on the road jiggle my fat enough that I never feel the need for a workout,” says Wahaj Zaidi.

“Coming back to Rawalpindi after five years provided a shock to my entire system. The place had changed. No more was it a sleepy town. I believe from the depths of my heart that one should not swear at people; that when someone else yells at you, you should leave it and move on,” says Waqar Naqvi.

“I did not do differently. After two days of riding my scooter and dealing with the traffic, I swore at every person who overtook me, came too close to my bike, or honked at me when there was a red signal,” adds Waqar.

“I used to diligently stand and wait for the traffic signals to change and allow me to move forward. However, when one man in a big vehicle tried to use his bumper to nudge me forward, I realized that you are supposed to break some traffic rules to conform to society’s rules,” says Wajahat Hussain.

“Huge lesson to be learned from this. While you change your values to conform to society, you can also change society’s values to conform to you,” adds Wajahat. “I have now learned to plan my ride home in such a way that I can do all my shopping on route. It was a result of trying to avoid all those one-ways and certain pot-holed-filled roads,” says Waleed.

Waris Ali says, “Yesterday when I left the office and headed homeward, the rain washed my body, hit my eyes, and tried to dampen my resolution to go home. That was my mission to beat the rain, beat the weather, beat the traffic and it is my goal to reach home and by God, I reached.”