Love, laugh, cry, I heard in my head. Maybe it's sarcasm or maybe it's a little wisdom leaking into my head because I heard these words next: serve, don't take yourself too seriously, and release. How I arrived at that second set of words took years.

I had that kind of conversation with a good friend. It was amazing how we each interpreted events and snippets we'd heard from various sources differently, radically differently. But because we're good friends, we listened to each other, asked questions, challenged each other, and agreed to disagree on some things.

The thought I had after my traffic frustration, survival, and no-one cares attitude was to turn inward for answers and not turn off or tune out. OK, I may need to turn away from news channels, too, for my mental health, but I'm learning to turn inward to work on my daily stress level.