So Many Roads, So Many Decisions

By: Adam Meza

As Americans, we enjoy the open road. There is something to the feeling of the rumble of the road under the tires and at our feet. There is also the power and control of being able to stop, go or take the turn up ahead.

One day on the road, going 55 mph or so, I began to wonder what every driver in my front view was thinking, what their next move would be, and what the moves of the cars the same distance ahead of them would be. In traffic school, instructors teach you to “look ahead and beyond.”

If you stop to think about it, a one-way road is like a current running through a wire or bus bar. There is always movement forward, but there will always be change — a decision made to go here or there. Like the view of the road ahead, think about all of the many decisions, good and bad, that were made on that wire or bus bar throughout the years on the way to the current’s destination. Repairs, new electrical professionals, new safety teams, new machinery, new procedures and maybe, just maybe, along the length of that current stream over time a problem develops, or is created, a pothole if you will. So many roads, so many decisions.

Will that one mistake or problem affect you? Chances are probably not. Chances are, when you jump in your car to drive home today, you will not get in an accident. But what if the driver in front of you, or the one in front of them, gets you into an accident?

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