Drive slow homie....

You never know homie, might meet some hoes homie, you need to pump your brakes and drive slow homie.  -Ye

I should've listened to Kanye. I'm not looking to meet any hoes, but I definitely should've drove slow. I got a speeding ticket today. I'm still pissed about it. I woke up today and decided that I wanted to go take some pictures if the city. I've been into iPhone photography lately, blame the gram. So I head into the city, blasting the new Nipsey Hussle album at concert levels, feeling good. I'm doing my normal 75-80 mph on the highway. No, I don't have an appointment, no, I don't have an exact destination. I was literally headed nowhere fast. I came over a hill, and waiting right on the otherside was a policeman. He was waiting on me, radar gun pointed directly at me. I knew he had me. He hit his lights quick, like he was one speeding ticket short of his quota and after this he could take the rest of the month off. I immediately turned on the dramatics, before I even pulled over I started shaking my head and hitting the steering wheel as if I was disappointed in myself, trying to get some sympathy. I finally found a spot to pull over, started recording a video on my phone, (just in case things got crazy) and rolled my window down. He asked for my license and insurance, this is the first time I've been pulled over and I had all of my paperwork legit, so I handed him my info quick! I was pulling out all of my manners, trying to get that good warning. He took my info and said it would only be a minute. He comes back and says that since I've been a gentleman that he knocked a few mph's off of my speed to lower my fine, but that he still had to give me a ticket. I appreciated that, said thanks, took my ticket, threw it in the glove box, turned my guy Nipsey back up and pulled off. 

I started thinking later about how I just wasted that money and had no reason at all to be in a hurry. Thinking about how I'm always in a hurry, even when I'm not headed anywhere. I want everything fast, I need instant satisfaction. I have always had an issue with patience, I hate waiting. I hate slow wifi. I hate slow service. I hate waiting on my girl to finish taking pictures of our food for Instagram before we can eat. I've called myself "working on" my patience for years. Today I decided that I am going to really be mindful of it and try to develop that virtue. It's okay to take things slow. I am going to try to enjoy this next leg of this marathon called life and not rush it. We live in a fast world, but sometimes we really do need to SLOW DOWN. Life is already short, it's no need to live it in fast forward.

I just wish that I could've thought about all of this before I got that damn ticket.