Any day when I get out to an Autocross and dodge cones with a couple hundred
friends for a day is a good day. Some are just better than others.
-Carl
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelly, Katie [mailto:kkelly@spss.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:50 AM
> To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: I THINK ITS BACKWARDS
>
>
> Look, I don't want to interfere with anyone's on-line
> meditations on thinking,
> focusing, and looking. I just want to state that I think my
> origional post
> "After the Ecstacy, the Laundry," taken from a book of the
> same title by a Mr.
> Kornfield (can't remember his first name) has been
> misinterpreted in the
> opposite direction in which it was intended.
>
> We're all trying to find ways to go faster in an autocross,
> and what I'm
> reading here is how others apply mental strengths acquired in
> other sports in
> activities to autocross. And that's all fine and dandy, but
> it's not what I
> was talking about.
>
> I'm talking not about driving, but about the emotions. This
> has very little to
> do about driving skills and performance. This is about how
> your performance
> can control your moods, and that even when you think that you
> "have it," and
> now you understand, that moment is fleeting.
>
> In his book, Kornfield describes in a couple of examples
> people who've gone
> through some sort of spiritual awakening, where suddenly
> everything connects
> and makes sense, they understand the mysteries of the world,
> and they are
> filled with a warm inner-peace. Yet, these people when they
> go home, once
> again faced with the realities of LIFE, are real jerks. They're still
> arrogant, they're still greedy, they're still human. The
> happiness of that
> moment once experienced maybe the day before, when it all
> made sense, is now
> gone. Back to work, back to the ball and chain, back to the laundry.
>
> It's just like an autocross. You still have to change your
> tires when it's all
> said and done.
>
> This sport is so much like a drug, where you can go from
> feeling absolutely
> euphoric at one event, where you think that you know it all,
> to absolutely
> depressed. You can feel depressed even if you look ahead
> perfectly. That still
> doesn't control how the others do in your class.
>
> Isn't that just like life? You can follow your life rules
> perfectly, you can
> lead an exceedingly good life, but you still can't control
> your surroundings,
> only how you react to those surroundings.
>
> Again, I've only read three pages, not enough to know what
> the author is
> really talking about.
>
> So, aside from looking ahead, I'd like to know how others
> handle good days and
> bad days. Surely, not ALL of your events meet your expectations.
>
> -Katie
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