"Everything happens for a reason."

This is a somewhat trite phrase that often loses its deeper, more substantial truth whenever it is bandied about in the often cavalier manner it so commonly appears. Tonight, as I was contemplating its relevance and even thinking to discount it a bit more than my usual gut reaction, it actually happened to me... and that thing that I intended to discount gave me a simple, direct flick in the nose.

I was driving home and coming around a slow corner behind a vehicle in the passing lane. It slowed down as it exited the turn and I wanted to pass it but a different car was merging into the slow lane at the same time and made it impossible for me to do so before the car in the passing lane clogged up all options. It proceeded to slow down to slower than the speed limit, basically matching the slow lane car's pace, annoying me immediately and causing me to feel quite uncomfortable with my poor emotional state about the whole thing. After stewing about the apparent idiocy of the situation for a not-so-brief moment I finally noticed that the car in the slow lane was likely an undercover police car.(exempt plates and make/model being the primary signs) I would have likely been pulled over by it had I passed it when I wanted to... this maddeningly slow car had actually saved my hide.

My contemplations of it's 'reason' where all the motivation I needed for this post. A moment of clarity expressed in my experience with the truth of things. Sometimes I am blessed to notice such things.