With the invention of air con, it seems no-one enjoys driving these days with the window wound down...Wound WTF...? Yes, back in the old days, winding was mandatory to get cooling breezes into the interior of your vehicle
Everyone now, well nearly, is sealed in, in a climate controlled environment, which was once one of the joys of driving. Sealed from natural wind bluster, the odd rain shower, or storm or winter shiver.
I still get a kick of feeling the rain pelting on my arm, feel it sting on the palm of my hand, wind blowing through an open window.
Is it a sign of how soft we have become, another sign of how we detached we have become? Controlled environments everywhere we live, visit or drive to in?
There are times at the end of a day in tropical heat, or cold of winter I'll use the climate controls in my travel............But, I do think it goes in part in insulating us not only from our surroundings and natural elements, from eachother also.
So many now drive and live, sealed in to their personal comforts, we lose our attachment to the natural environment in which we live.
I still get a kick of feeling the rain pelting on my arm, feel it sting on the palm of my hand, wind blowing through an open window.
Is it a sign of how soft we have become, another sign of how we detached we have become? Controlled environments everywhere we live, visit or drive to in?
There are times at the end of a day in tropical heat, or cold of winter I'll use the climate controls in my travel............But, I do think it goes in part in insulating us not only from our surroundings and natural elements, from eachother also.
So many now drive and live, sealed in to their personal comforts, we lose our attachment to the natural environment in which we live.