Life on the Highway

We can make the world a better place by observing one simple golden driving rule – SLOWER CARS STAY TO THE RIGHT . Yes I’ve been traveling again and this is Goldi’s public service announcement for those traveling on the highway.  PLEASE all highway drivers need to remember that slower cars need to stay to the right.  If you are in the left lane and someone comes up behind you. Don’t take it personally; don’t slow down to keep that person driving slow, and don’t feel that you are entitled to stay in the left lane driving at whatever speed you want.  Please move to the right.

This time is not just my thought or opinion… I’ve looked into several state dmv sites and all in one form or another say for safe expressway driving, to drive in the right, and pass on the left.

I’ve been in so many traffic jams just due to someone hanging slow in the left lane.  Causing many behind them undue stress.  We all move at different rhythms and have different agendas on different days.  One person may be out for a Sunday drive while another maybe racing to see a dying relative. We don’t know, and it’s not our job to control anything. Just please be kind and if your in the left lane, even if your passing someone and someone comes up behind you, it means they are going faster. Pass the car and then move over to the right. Let the faster car go ahead of you and then you can move back out into the left lane to pass again if needed.  Much of the aggressive driving on the highway comes from the slow driver in the left lane. So please if your in the left lane and not passing someone, make life better and safer for us all, and move to the right.   Life will be so much better.

Please facebook post and retweet this safety reminder.

Just a thought…

Love, Goldi

 

Life’s Compounding Interest-Nothing Happens and Then Everything Happens

“Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.” – Fay Weldon

Compound interest is where interest is collected and added to the principle amount invested so that the principle plus the interest are now earning interest. I have thought of it mostly in regards to finance, and still remember the story told to me by one of my high school teachers.  He said two friends were playing golf.  The first friend said; “lets bet $25 dollars on each hole”. The other friend said; “No, lets bet $1 on the first hole and then double it at each hole.”  The first friend thought the other friend wanted to keep the match friendly and the stakes low, even though they both were well off, and agreed to start at $1. By the time they reached the eighth hole the friend was laughing thinking his friend really put it to him, as that hole would cost him $128.  By the fourteenth hole, and at $4096, it wasn’t funny anymore. By the time he reached the eighteenth hole the bet was a whopping $131,072.

I drive through two neighborhoods, one is a new and is without any trees or natural beauty. The second neighborhood is older with big majestic trees and mature landscaping. One house in particular has rock and stone paths, a water fall and pond, flower beds, shrubs and trees all perfectly placed.  The type of landscaping that only evolves after time and effort.

I started blogging about a year ago and using twitter and about a month ago.  In both cases it was slow going getting my first followers. In fact, it seem like forever, but then one came and then eventually another, and now that I have several it seems that they are coming quicker.  Like a snowball running down hill.  It just keeps getting bigger and faster as it goes.

Life is like that.  We have to plant our seeds, continue to do the work, and one day we will look up and see what we have created…

Just a thought…

Love, Goldi

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