Vices

Someone asked me the other 24-hour interval what my vices were.  I had to halt as well as intend near it then, as well as I am nevertheless thinking near it now.  I don't subscribe to the most mutual ones.  The give-and-take turned to my (as Hunter Thompson pose it)  "affinity for speed".  Apparently, inwards but about circles, speed is idea of equally a vice.  And those who try it are called "adrenaline junkies".  I was non aware the depths of my depravity.

Dictionary.com defines vice equally "an immoral or evil habit or practice" besides "a fault, defect or shortcoming".

That Definition as well as the moniker "adrenaline junkie" look therefore far away from my concept of speed I felt the demand to dedicate this ship service to it.  So what then, separates the wish to function fast from womanizing? Boozing? Overeating?  Smoking? Chasing the dragon?  Why create but about of us, myself  included, await at it equally to a greater extent than of a holy movement than a damning iniquity?  What follows is what I was able to come upwards up with.

Speed, for truthful adherents, is non an addiction, but a quest, something non taken lightly or entered into on a whim.  In as well as of itself non an inherent expiry judgement or destroyer of morals or character.  Quite the opposite. While at that spot are risks, the rewards far outweigh them.

It calls upon us to function the best versions of ourselves nosotros tin imagine, to prepare, to train, to plan.  To constantly rising higher upwards arbitrary limits laid past times others, equally good equally our own.  It fosters study, knowledge, inventiveness as well as self-reflection, instead of dulling the senses as well as mind.  It is a science as well as an fine art that must move finely honed.  One which suffers no "faults", "defects" or "shortcomings".  Rather than roofing those things up, it entirely spotlights them as well as insists on resolution.

No ane questions the sprinter when they try to move the fastest, or the swimmer or the bicyclist.  Why should it move whatsoever unlike then, for the motorbike racer?  Can it kill you?  Sure, but many to a greater extent than people function inwards bed every year.  Perhaps sleeping is a vice?

In the end, a truthful vice limits your capabilities, your potential as well as ultimately takes away from the lineament of your life.  Speed as well as racing inwards full general offering tremendous possibilities for just the opposite.

Never piece of cake down.  

Debauching myself alongside a fighting of knee articulation dragging at Road Atlanta 2015

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