A car

 How do you live life in a place you've only known without a car, for so many years, after finally gaining the freedom to drive one.

Its not like it was this revolutionary liberation. The rich weren't getting their heads stuck in the guillotine like I wanted. However, there is still this sense of freedom. It feels like the first time shooting a truly high caliber gun in a place where you're not suppose to. Not some 22. peashooter in some pisshand's back yard, but a 30 aut 6 claiming an 8 point buck. It wasn't pissing in the wind, but a feeling like you've made this second, or third, or fourth step into the never-ending adulthood that is the rest of our life till we die.

So, I take this freedom I've been given and appreciate it. Yet how can I deny the enjoyment I get from it. I've been given the privilege to live without it for so many years and it had absolutely radicalized me to a point... I feel most of us don't need it. Why do any of us need it? Because we don't want to make the trip to the supermarket on a Saturday night for some shitty frozen food and a case of beer for the weekend? What stops you from doing that on a bike? Oh, the nearest supermarket is 4km away. Well, that makes sense.

I'm so lucky to live within walking distance of my means, and its not even hard. I mean, rural Japan was able to do it. Why can't we (California)? Growing up, the closest "grocery store" was "Grocery Outlet Bargain Market" (GOBM.... let the joke make itself) that sold cheap crap that the other, reputable places put on discount. The next place to get anything edible was Vons and that was an hour bike ride both ways. What kind of life is that to live? only the well off or those living within proximity can get healthy food?

Its not to say there isn't a way to live remotely and have access to basic necessities... but if rural places in other countries are providing better/accessible places to buy food than us (Californians)... what does that say about us?....

So now, I feel like I got the power of a AR15 when all I'm hunting its squirrels. A 22. can easily do the job... while an AR is gonna obliterate it... but the latter is so damn fun to shoot.