Love Healing by J

Waze vs Google Maps

You have a dinner date with a friend for 6 pm, right in the middle of rush hour. Outside of this time you know the exact route that is going to get you to the restaurant fast. But it is rush hour when the traffic is super unpredictable. You are unsure whether you will make it in time especially since the restaurant only has a 15 min grace period for reservations and a 2-hour dining limit because of Covid, so you don’t want to be late.

Normally it takes 15 mins to get there. But now you only have about 12 mins because you had a work deadline due at the end of the day. What do you do?

Waze can get you there in 15 minutes, so you will only be 3 mins late. However, the route is taking you through several unfamiliar side streets that makes you feel a bit uncertain. Google maps can get you there in 22 minutes, which will make you about 19 mins late, 4 mins over your reservation but if your friend gets there first, you might be safe.

You are familiar with the Google route because you use it all the time to places around the restaurant. The Waze route is weird, and you do not recognize several of the side streets on the journey.

Choices, choices. That little voice inside is telling you to go with Waze while your brain is saying go with what you know. You think, “My friend will be there first.” But you’ve wasting time. Every minute you take deciding is eating up the time you should be driving.

Then, the moment you decide on Google, your friend texts you she is running late. To not disappoint, you take your chance with Waze and actually arrive on time for the restaurant, and your friend is only 5 minutes late.

You think, “I’m glad I went with my gut.”

Do you listen to your intuition? Do you trust your decisions? Do you prefer to take the familiar path?

Tip: You will think that every time you choose your true self. That gut. It will never steer you wrong .