control and friction

[laurenaf]

This one may be a little weird but every once in awhile I get the strangest feeling just driving my car around. It's just completely amazing to me that I'm the one with the power of where it's going and what it's doing. It's like, I can remember when I still could hardly control a two-wheel bike, and now there's this big huge vehicle (I'm serious about that, I have a big old grocery-getter, not a little two-door cavalier or something!) anyway, it's multiple times my size and weight, I probably couldn't push the thing if it weren't for the fact that the wheels on a low friction surface make that kind of easy. Like if it were the same weight and size but was just a box sitting on gravel? Yeah, no way in hell I could get that moving. But yet here I am deciding where to go and what to do with it. A vehicle is powerless to do anything except what you tell it to do (well...except when it malfunctions :P) I have all the control. Strange, I know, but this is why sometimes something as simple as driving a car can completely overwhelm me. And also why sometimes when I become aware of things like that, I realize how much I like it.

Comments

[nandini.livejournal.com]

hehe Lauren is god of a 3000lbs mass, she can will it to do her bidding with the slightest wave of her arm or the tap of her foot.. thats a pretty awesome power really

hehe I like how you said that.. though, it is a weird feeling knowing you're this fragile thing inside something that could crush you with very little effort.. but at the same time you're controling it.. hehe you could get even more cliched and say "you become it" hehe, or you're wearing a car suit hehe.. must be how elephants feel lol