So, a good month and a half later I have my court date. I had absolutely NO idea what this would en

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So, a good month and a half later I have my court date.  I had absolutely NO idea what this would entail, and it was 100x worse what I had ever imagined.  I wore my most professional dress with a black blazer and heels.  Brought my book since I figured I d be there for a while and would need something to keep me occupied.  I packed a snack with some water.  I had my whole speech memorized (my boyfriend told me word-for-word what I needed to say to fix everything).  Umm yea, none of any of this mattered.
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He finally does and everything was going so fast I didn t have time to comprehend it all or figure out where I came into this whole thing.  At one point the prosecutor cracked myrtle beach vacation home rentals a joke to another girl around my age about her jail time for a speeding ticket not being for too long.  The moments myrtle beach vacation home rentals before the whole crowd broke out in laughter were moments of HELL for me when I thought he was serious.  Uhh, NOT funny!  The cops guarding the stand were miserable, mad and constantly yelling out to people.  The judge and the other two people on the stand were cheerless and unpleasant.  Everyone around me was tired and pissed off.  I was enveloped in a room filled with negativity something I m not used to at all.
While sitting there, I realized how beautiful I ve made my life within the past decade.  I strategically make sure I surround myself with like-minded people, happy and positive activities.  I start to deepen myrtle beach vacation home rentals my breath and pull out my mala beads from my purse.  They comfort me and always help me come back to my place of peace within me and just observe what s going on around me.  I started to feel compassion for most of the people in the room, including the ones that were being so mean to us.
My long night of court ended waiting in an even longer line outside the courtroom to the cashier.  This included an entire line of angry people with even more cranky myrtle beach vacation home rentals clerks behind the desk.  I paid my money and got the hell out of there at 10:26pm.
The lesson I took away from the whole thing:  Slow down, because myrtle beach vacation home rentals if you don t you may end up in an evil and angry court room once again.  HA!  No but for real, slow down.  There was no reason to be going 20 miles over the speed limit that morning and I should have been easier on the gas pedal for not only my safety, but the other drivers around me.  Beyond just driving fast, slowing myrtle beach vacation home rentals down in other areas of my life.  I want to welcome taking a break a few times a day while I work just to wind down and breathe.  I want to focus on chewing my food well so that I can enjoy each bite.  Little moments of slowing down to enjoy life even more than I already do.  Life is funny how lessons myrtle beach vacation home rentals come to us in such strange moments, ey?