Today i'm feeling a bit reflective. It's not like a mirror, where you can clearly see yourself, but more like a rippling lake surface, where you can kind of make out your own life, and see yourself, but then, it's not quite there. Much like that, I can't quite grasp reality and focus on myself. I guess that's why I like to supplement thinking with video games and now, as an added bonus, think about my car. It has become another part of my living body, a place where I can go to escape for a while.

When I drive, I feel like I am in total control of myself. I know exactly where I want to go, how fast I want to go to get there, and which path to take. It's simple. Turn the key, flip on the radio, hit the clutch, put it in gear, and blast off. Let the sound of the engine drown away any real thoughts and feelings, and anything that manages to gain a foothold in my conscienceness, push it off with talk radio's droning talk.

In the end, I'll still have to step out of my nutshell and return to the real world, but while i'm there, I might as well enjoy it, $1.09 cents a gallon at a time.