Six Steps to Ecstacy...

Rev the engine to optimum RPM. Shift higher. Rev match and let the clutch go. Rev higher and feel the power spool in smoothly. Then do it again and again. Six times. The sheer thrill of the perfectly executed gearshift. Six different notes played by the exhaust. Just that will make me buy a stick-shift over and over again.

Passion...

We all should have passion. About something. However minor or esoteric, every person should have something in their lives that makes them smile and gets their spirits up. Even in the worst of times. When times are good everyone does ok. But it’s when times are bad that people need a distraction. And that does not mean drinking oneself senseless or going into morbid depression. It means doing something that makes you feel the day is worth it.
I game, I read, I write and I drive. I tremendously enjoy each of these activities. And yet there are times when I am bored out of my mind. Hence I dread being the person who does not ‘feel’ for anything. For whom everything is passé or lame. For such people just exist. They don’t live. And that’s a real waste of the wonderful gift called life.