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You’re Going the Wrong Way!
“Sometimes you have to get off track to discover a better track.”
– Robin S. Sharma
I thought I saw Phillip Seymour Hoffman in the grocery store the other day.
But considering he’s been dead six years, that would have been quite the feat.
And yet…I dare say I gleaned an important message from the incident.
Let me back up a moment…
One of my all-time favourite movies is “Planes, Trains & Automobiles.” It was directed by John Hughes and starred John Candy & Steve Martin.
If you’ve seen the film, you may recall the hilarious scene when the character played by John Candy is driving down the wrong side of the highway. He has no idea he is on the wrong side of the road and the character played by Steve Martin has just woken up, so he has no idea either.
But there is a husband and wife in an adjacent vehicle, who are driving down the correct side of the highway, madly trying to get their attention by screaming out the window: “You’re going the wrong way!”
John Candy’s character tries to ignore them…they’ve obviously been drinking — because how could they know whether he’s going the wrong way or not? They don’t know where he’s going! He shares this wonky reasoning with Steve Martin’s character, who agrees…at first.
The panicky couple, of course, were right. He was going the wrong way…
