Do We Have to Leave our Childhood Myths Alone?

9 July 2015 Redazione Alex Marrone

We all have our superhero dressed as a car.
But it’s really best to avoid going face to face with that model that has characterized our dreams as a child? Among the many posters (because a few years ago still existed) that we had in our rooms, what was the car with the most attention? The one above the bed, so that stood out as the first image once waken up, once our eyes were open. We all have one in particular, and many more are the so-called “legends” that populated internet forums and now Facebook groups. Often seasoned with urban legends on the verge of science fiction, you could hear thousands of stories, always based on “hearsay”. Then it comes that fateful day when you have the chance to drive it for real and you immediately return being a child: the heart beats strong and can’t wait to touch its metal, opening the door and holding the steering wheel, sure that the minutes that you will live will be the best of your life.
And so, the tragedy. If you are an objective person and with a minimum of experience and criteria on your back, you realize that, very often, too often unfortunately, it would be better to live your myth in the memory, with the imagination that you created, keeping to admire it as your first big dream. Today, our quality standards are affected by the improved accuracy during assembly of modern cars, and sometimes, much more importantly, the much vaunted performance are barely enough to not look bad while overtaking a cyclist uphill. I will not go into details, but the cars that represented my biggest dreams, turned out to be really disappointing, I would have preferred to keep them with that mask of mystery, letting me wonder if they really were so great (convincing myself that they really were so great).

Alex Marrone