There is a guy in my neighborhood who drives a GIANT black pick up truck. He has it all decked out and you can tell he is very proud of it. I can hear him coming from miles away before his truck arrives on our street.

There is one thing he does each day that surprises me. He pulls into the neighborhood and drives down the street to the end where he lives. When it is time to go, instead of turning around, he drives backwards all the way out of the neighborhood.

I do not understand why.

I was thinking about how much he seem to love his truck, why would he risk ruining it by driving the wrong way. I started thinking maybe he doesn’t really like his truck. I also wondered if maybe he was drinking and that is how he behaves when he drinks. I did not understand why he does this every day too. It is not like he has a fight with someone and then does this. He does this as part of his routine. This is just odd.

Every day when he drives his truck backwards, my head starts to run on why he does this. I realized that I am judging him. I am judging what he is doing and trying to figure it out myself because I do not think it fits into my rules for life.

This is his life and if he wants to drive his truck backwards, well then drive it backwards. Do you think every day he thinks about me and why I am sitting at my desk working and looking out the window each day? Of course not.

Just because his actions aren’t something I do that doesn’t mean it is wrong or needs to be understood. It is his life to live.

Think what life would be like if we all allowed people to live their own lives and just focused on our own.

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