Before I began driving less, I had long had a melancholic sense that the city lifestyle I lived was cut off from the seasons and nature
Before I began driving less, I had long had a melancholic sense that the city lifestyle I lived was cut off from the seasons and nature
You’re right. Often, the primary emotion is fear when something goes wrong when driving. But it gets pushed out as anger.
The other factor is that driving is a lot more frustrating than walking or cycling, at least in the city. Stop-and-go causes stress to build up because you feel like you don’t have control over your actions most of the time. That doesn’t happen with walking.
i only studied psychology a bit (because i couldn’t get into uni) but it is known that emotions have a difficult to change amount, “arousal” (not necessarily sexual), but the direction can be fairly easily changed, fear to anger, in the traffic scenario, or anger to desire, like in make-up sex, or anxiety to anger, like watching the news