Email: Garbage Truck Driver

I received this as an email from a good friend of mine. Figured I'd share it, too.
Law of the Garbage Truck
One day I hopped in a taxi and took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded and missed the car by inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My driver just smiled and waved at the guy and I mean he was really friendly. "So", I asked "Why did you just do that? The guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!"

This is what my taxi driver taught me what I now call "the law of the garbage truck."

He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally.
Just smile, wave, wish them well and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home or on the street.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so love the people who treat you right and pray for the ones who don't.