Please, Drive Your Cars!

29 August 2016 Redazione Alex Marrone, Lifestyle

Do you still remember that night you’ve been working late? Those weekends spent at the office, instead of chilling at the beach with friends and all the times you’ve had to give up an extra holiday or some kind of item, star of a desire dictated by the thousands of proposals that Amazon offers us every day? We worked and worked so hard, putting aside enough coins to finally buy the car we wished so much. We looked for it for a long time and when we found it we suddenly became children again, with that unstoppable eagerness to take it home – right away – no longer able to wait.
Your car is the result of your efforts, the real place in which you’ve stored all of your energy, and most of your resources and whenever you can give yourself a little ‘of intimacy with it, driving aimlessly on some scenic road, where giving free rein to the roar of its engine, all sacrifices are immediately paid off and never as in those moments you feel you’ve made it, you’re free, you’re happy. There’s a fine line, however, that many car guys tend to view as an insurmountable obstacle and that we must dispel once and for all, of course, assuming that you have not brought home a collection piece auctioned for millions and millions of Euros. Cars are meant to be driven, especially modern ones, especially sports ones. They want to drink petrol as you want to hear their melodious roar once the needle reaches the red line of the rev counter. It’s time to stop keeping it in the garage for not gathering dust or putting kilometers on the clock, we have to enjoy it before the following owner will. Keeping it at its best and respecting it, it should be treated as it really asks and how that desire that has driven us up there wants. You will be able to create an album of memories, a collage of emotions that does not absolutely have to be kept on a chain, but left free to materialize, and at that point you really crown your dream. Life is one and has to be lived at its best, as if tomorrow would be the last day. And the same goes for our beloved cars. Let’s take care of it and let’s enjoy it so long as we guard its key in our hands.

Words and photo by Alex Marrone