An Important Moment

When I think of the moment, the spinning never stops. I was a speed demon in high school, I loved fast cars, they truly were my passion. I could tell you anything about the mechanical details of a car, instead of applying that knowledge to a career, I applied it to optimizing the performance of my own vehicle. Showing off was a branch of my character back then, and when you have a screaming yellow convertible mustang with a V8 under the hood, it's quite easy to get carried away. December 1st, 2012 was the last day I ever street raced.
It was just two kids with souped up cars at an HEB stoplight. The exhaust of my mustang encumbered the air with eye watering fumes, while the car next to me slowly eased up beside. It was a cherry red red modified lexus with dark windows that witheld the identity of the driver. He inched forward more and more, pressuring me to pop the clutch on green. I remember the moment right before the light changed, I had this choice like a battle within my mind. The  reasonable part of my mind was clashing with the egotistical part, and when the light turned green my ego came out on top.
I popped the clutch and just remeber feeling the weight of head submerge into the headrest of my seat. The lexus shot ahead by almost 2 car lengths, at one point I was about to give up and have him enjoy his victory. My ego refused, I switched to 3rd and by then we were doing over a 100 miles an hour, and my car shot ahead. I switched lanes in front to assure my victory, and then everything slowed down. I was 100 ft from an intersection and a car turned right in front of me. In my mind at the moment, everything occured at a slow motion pace, and all the different possible outcomes were presented with enough time for me to react. I swerved my wheel just in time for me to dodge the inboud car, I thought I had it. The speed I was going was so fast my car couldnt handle the force on the back wheels, that it flung me into a spinning pandemonieum. The spinning in my head is so vivid, and the wheel of the car was jerking in such aggressive manners that if you tried to catch the wheel, it would snap your hand off in result. I let go of everything and I let fate do the rest. My car flew into oncoming traffic and hit 2 women head in a volvo head on. Fortunately, no one was injured except for minor cuts and bruises. The consequences and the lessons of that experience follow me to this day, court fees, community service, liscense suspension, points on your liscensce, and refusal to be insured for a motor vehicle. Its moments like these that throw your life into a directionless spinning chaos, that never stops.