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turbulence - by vincent huang - a slice of my mind

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on the open road all cars eventually diverge from one another. this fact was not obvious to me until my third or fourth road trip. so many times i would see a car traveling at a speed similar to my own and i would think oh, this is fine, i’ll just stay behind that car for a while, and then one of two things would happen - the other car, imperceptibly faster, would travel a few inches more every minute and eventually pull away; the other car, imperceptibly slower, would eventually become a hindrance so significant that i had no choice but to overtake it i never thought i would be a passer. my adolescence: driving at the speed limit, staying in right lanes, risk aversion to the extreme. the first time i tried to pass someone last year it took me four attempts because i wasn’t used to accelerating so quickly. but what i have realized in recent months is that, on a sufficiently long trip, every driver must become a passer when i say that highways feel violent, this is usually what i mean -

on the open road all cars eventually diverge from one another. this fact was not obvious to me until my third or fourth road trip. so many times i would see a car traveling at a speed similar to my own and i would think oh, this is fine, i’ll just stay behind that car for a while, and then one of two things would happen - the other car, imperceptibly faster, would travel a few inches more every minute and eventually pull away; the other car, imperceptibly slower, would eventually become a hindrance so significant that i had no choice but to overtake it i never thought i would be a passer.…

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