so, after 6+ years of being carless, i just bought a car and drove it home yesterday. my attitude toward vehicles and most things is a very simplistic, minimalist one. don't need bells and whistles, as long as it gets me from point A to point B. my tendency has always been to look at nearly dead used cars or stripped bare new cars (as in manual roll-down windows and no A/C). but a few months ago i started saying that i wanted something perfect for me, whatever that meant. i also said that i wanted a free car, realizing that what i was really asking for was a great deal, since i'm not a panhandler by trade. i started trusting that it would come and not be a big time-guzzler (since i have no time to guzzle these days).
i spent one morning looking at cars and at the 2nd place i went, a car in the way-back of the used car section was singing to me. weird, cuz it was red and i generally don't like red. probably cuz i have a story that it's pretentious or something. anyway, i went back and looked at it and knew it wanted me as much as i wanted it. it was in pristine shape and had low mileage. i made a very low offer, which i thought they'd laugh at, but after a 30 minute connection with the Russian manager, he said "okay, i'll do it, since you love my Russia so much". i signed the paperwork the same day and am now an owner of a Red BMW Convertible (!).
how cliche. and how ironic, since i'm the antithesis of cliche. part of me feels strange for having something so extravagant, but what i'm learning from this car is that abundance is. period. it just is. when we ask, we are given. but will we graciously accept it? i don't need a gadget that tells me how many more miles i can drive before my gas runs out, but i've got it. and i'm so thankful for it. giddy with gratitude, in fact.
my friend told me that i'm magic. somehow producing things out of thin air. but that's cuz i believe in it and there's a 'greater than' on my side. askin' and callin' it in, that's what.
i'm so excited about the convertible part, that i think i shall drive with it down always. i'll keep some supplies in the glove box - swim goggles for foggy days and a beanie cap with umbrella for rainy days.
is this a blog about my car? nope. but, you got that, right?
where's your symbol of the abundance of the earth? there's always enough for all, and sometimes extravagance even pours in, cuz that's the way it is.
p.s. is it annoying that i write 'because', 'cuz'?
