I was visiting my fiance this weekend and saw a great example of human nature at work. Louisville has been doing work on I-65 ever since I moved to Kentucky back in 2001 and the traffic gets caught up as the two lanes are forced very close to each other. The plan is to have four lanes each direction but in the meantime, we've had to suffer with more like one and a half lanes. But this weekend that changed, a significant part of the road was now open and the sight was beautiful. However, NO ONE drove in the two new lanes. Instead, we all stayed in the two lanes that we were used to, even though it meant going much slower than was needed. It was the oddest thing, two wide open lanes and no one would use them.
I guess this reflects our ability to be conditioned. After years of having only those two skinny lanes, we don't take advantage of all the room we now have simply because we're used to where we are. I also felt like perhaps I would be breaking a rule if I were to get out into the other lane, no one else was going out so maybe I just didn't know something important. I suspect that this same question kept many others out of the new lanes.
Let's not let ourselves be conditioned to the point where we unintentionally hold ourselves back for fear of doing something different. I had a professor in college who liked to say, "We like to color outside the lines." Sometimes, that makes a more interesting piece of art. Drive in the lanes you've been given and don't worry about what others might think.
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