Cars, a metaphor for life?

Think about it, if your a car guy as most people know I'm not so I could be way off, you know that some people enjoy a fixer upper project and others like to buy cars that are in mint condition. When I say car guy I'm not referring to the type of person that owns a car. I'm referring to a real car person. Someone who knows what the number associated with the engine name refers to, or someone who knows why we don't have hover cars to drive around in like Back to the Future promised us when we were kids. A real car guy.

Anyway, a real car guy can see a classic model of a car and get excited as to the potential that the car has. He knows that if he just puts in the TIME and MONEY that he could have one of the best cars in the world. A completely polished sweet ride that he can brag about to his friends. Cars of this nature, depending on the car guy, usually end up with one of two fates. One is to be cherished and babied by the guy for the rest of his existence or to be bragged about by the guy for awhile and then sold to someone else. If the car meets the latter of the two fates the car guy is usually prone to begin his search again for a project of some sort, a way to be car to be that can be repaired or upgraded to a fine tuned automobile that will earn him bragging rights for a while until he can sell it and start the continual process all over again. Until one day the car decides that he is completely happy with his most recent referberation and is content to keep that car for the rest of his life.

Then there are other car guys who are interested in the already fine tuned, polished to a high shine automobile. This is also a car that entitles him to bragging rights. There are also two types of car guys in this category. The one who buys his car and keeps it for ever the one who keep the car for a time only to become unsatisfied with the vehicle when something better comes along. At which point this car guy will do anything to trade in or upgrade his car. He may even have both cars for a while and spend time with babying both of them until he finally decides that he can only afford one car or that he just doesn't care as much for the old car as much as he does for the new car. Depending upon the resources of the the car guy may depend on how long he will hold on to each car or depending upon the features of the car could save the car from being sold. Because eventually the car guy will decide on a car that he will keep longer than any other car.

I was sitting in church the other day trying unsuccessfully to pay attention to whatever was going on and a thought came to me. Old cars are a metaphor for person to person relationships. When you think about it. There are different aproaches people take to forming and maintaining co-ed relationships. If in my rambling thoughts that you just read through you turn car guy into guy/girl and turn car into girl/guy I think that you will come to the same conclusion that I came to. Now if you we could just figure out what this all means and apply it life I could sleep at night.