Wednesday, April 10, 2002
Hypnotized |9:36 AM|
It was my friend Josh's 21st birthday celebration last night. We were supposed to meet at a bar downtown at around 11:30 as to catch his legal changeover to the drinking age.
I headed downtown alone, at a very unusual time traffic wise. I have never seen the highways of Austin this empty, even at 3am. Usually, there is someone or some truck ahead of me on the road, but for mile after mile there was just my car, and the headlights of other cars a great distance behind me. The street lamps zipped by, and I started to feel myself detach from the actual driving and thinking involved in the road. I was being hypnotized, and I was very quickly just a perspective, just a pair of eyes rippling their way down the road as the need to dodge or worry about other vehicles had been removed. I'm unsure how long I spent as nothing at all, but eventually another car entered the highway in front of me, and I had to pull back to reality. As if this was some trigger, cars that had been in the distance behind me quickly caught up and passed me, while several more cars entered the roadway, and again I was in standard traffic. But for those moments, I was nothing but a will to continue, a perspective to observe the streetlights as they flickered past my window.
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