Rethinking Retrograde

So, you know when you are on the highway, and a car passes you?

Both cars are still moving forward, but the other is going faster?  So now you get the "illusion" that you're moving backwards as they move foward?  But you're all still going forward?  It's just a matter of speed and how it looks from where you sit?  Mercury retrograde! 

Nobody moves backwards, we just get in our feelings 3 times a year because Mercury laps us and we cannot stand that with our egos.