I manifest compassion.

Compassion is mostly an attention problem. Whichever explanation you reach for first is the one you act on, and the first one is usually about character — they are rude, they are careless, they have no respect for your time.

There is always a second story available, and it costs nothing to keep one within reach. The driver who cut across you might be an idiot. He might also be forty minutes from a hospital.

You will never find out which, and that is rather the point. Practising the second story does not make you naive. It changes what you notice, and what you notice is what you end up doing something about.