As the title says I’m curious if my peers love or loathe driving?
I’ve been able to drive for a few years but never really needed to until I got a job which is 45 miles away.
I absolutely love it and I can’t explain why. It’s quite cathartic, there lots of stimulation and it’s fun to watch all the other cars.
I get to drive through lots of poor traffic jams then on to country roads with lots of cows to shout good morning to.
My friends said I’d get bored of it eventually, spoiler: they’re never right, yet I’ve been doing 500 miles a week for a few months and it’s still so much fun. I don’t care about the weather or the traffic I just like being in the car.
I have been driving for 41 years and I love it. I enjoy my morning commute, my drive home in the evening and getting out on weekends and holidays in the car or on my motorcycle.
It feels cathartic and meditative.
None of my family feel the same way and don’t understand why I love it so much. I can’t explain it to people who don’t get it. I’ve tried several times over the years and have just come to accept that it’s my thing.
Every now and then you come across someone else who gets it, and you barely need to speak about it. The only other thing that makes me feel the same way is long distance target shooting.
You’re right it is hard to explain to it to other people.
I am guessing here but for me I think it’s the constant stimulation that I enjoy, when at work as a software developer I rarely take my phone out of the drawer because I am sufficiently stimulated, but when at home even when partaking in my hobbies I can get distracted and my mind wonders. Whereas in a car there is so much stimulation and stuff to concentrate on that it actually allows my mind to relax as my thoughts can’t wonder off.
I like to try and predicate what other cars will do, like micro adjustments from them sometimes tell me that hey this dudes going to merge in front of me and lo and behold they do.