Red Light Theory

Here's my famous Red Light Theory. People notice red lights more in life. This leads them to believe there are more red lights in life than green lights. But this is only because they actually stop and wait at red lights whereas they just drive straight through green lights.

An argument against this, which I credit to the great Neel Shah, is that red lights really do last longer because they last as long as a green light plus a yellow light. Also, everyone knows how obscenely long those left turn red lights can be. But my theory is still cool.

Anyways, this has a lot of real world applications. A lot of things in life seem like they happen a lot when in fact they aren't any more frequent but simply seem that way because they tend to last longer. During that longer duration of time, you can easily think about things like "Another red light!" or "I just realized I'm really hungry! Another red light!" or "Dang it. Another red light."

I think the picture below fully illustrates my point: