This is an amazing coincidence!
I will write more in my journal later, however it’s worth commenting here briefly.
In my considerations on how to continue minimising intellectualism in regards to everything, and having an affective awareness of any deviation from feeling good, I came up with a brief reminder, a saying if you will; “my emotions are information on what is happening within me, but are not about what is factual in the actual world.”
The freeway traffic jambs were a perfect test of this premise.
My eyes can see a car cutting in. That’s a sensory fact. Braking is now the factually correct action.
‘my’ proto-annoyance, a twinge of a potential anger is not informing me of what is factually happening. For example, if I allowed annoyance to inform me, I may think “this is a rude and selfish person driving like that”.
The fact of who the driver is, what their motivation to change lanes was, and whether they are abnormally rude or selfish, are completely unknown. As a fact!
(Turned into a journal entry after all😉).