It was lazy Saturday evening, while I was returning home when a weird idea struck me. I have been driving a lot these days trying to gain the perfection. And while the soothing breeze was caressing me, I realized that car is so much similar to our life.
Here is how the analogy works. Car is similar to life. Both keep on moving. They get battered, colored, maintained and loved. People use them, abuse them, overuse them, under-use them. Both need fuel. Our energy and enthusiasm is the fuel that charges our life. There are five gears in non-automated car. First gear is family. It’s very difficult to get the car moving or the life moving without family-support. Second gear is the friends. While we drive in the narrowest of the lanes in the city, Second gear is the most important. When we face massive obstacles, complex confusions, our friends are always there for our rescue. Third gear is the life partner. When life picks up pace and when amazing things start happening to a human, when potential and motivation to really go the next level is required third gear is comes into picture. Other 2 gears differ for different people. For a few them its career, for others it may be status, fame, money or any other thing that can be materialistically be equated to success.
Clutch is the heart. Irrespective of whatever we want to do with the car, clutch is the most important part. We use the clutch and put our car into different gears. We think from our heart and continually shift our priorities and our gears. Brakes are the reality checks which keep us guarded. They keep us humble and grounded. They teach us to be considerate, be respectful towards other cars. Accelerator is the passion that pushes the enthusiasm which in turn takes life ahead. Slopes on the roads are like the hurdles in life. We need a greater amount of push to carry life ahead when obstacles work as speed-breakers towards our destination of success. Again here I re-iterate the importance of friends. If we try to push our car into the space of the other car, both the cars face damages. This can exactly be mapped to the lack of space in any relationship.
All the car-maniacs will be massively disappointed because somehow I cannot find the right analogies for engine, windows, keys, wipers and so many other miscellaneous things. However I have just sparked a flame. It would be great if all the readers can chip in with theirs two cents about the equation between life and the car…
Here is how the analogy works. Car is similar to life. Both keep on moving. They get battered, colored, maintained and loved. People use them, abuse them, overuse them, under-use them. Both need fuel. Our energy and enthusiasm is the fuel that charges our life. There are five gears in non-automated car. First gear is family. It’s very difficult to get the car moving or the life moving without family-support. Second gear is the friends. While we drive in the narrowest of the lanes in the city, Second gear is the most important. When we face massive obstacles, complex confusions, our friends are always there for our rescue. Third gear is the life partner. When life picks up pace and when amazing things start happening to a human, when potential and motivation to really go the next level is required third gear is comes into picture. Other 2 gears differ for different people. For a few them its career, for others it may be status, fame, money or any other thing that can be materialistically be equated to success.
Clutch is the heart. Irrespective of whatever we want to do with the car, clutch is the most important part. We use the clutch and put our car into different gears. We think from our heart and continually shift our priorities and our gears. Brakes are the reality checks which keep us guarded. They keep us humble and grounded. They teach us to be considerate, be respectful towards other cars. Accelerator is the passion that pushes the enthusiasm which in turn takes life ahead. Slopes on the roads are like the hurdles in life. We need a greater amount of push to carry life ahead when obstacles work as speed-breakers towards our destination of success. Again here I re-iterate the importance of friends. If we try to push our car into the space of the other car, both the cars face damages. This can exactly be mapped to the lack of space in any relationship.
All the car-maniacs will be massively disappointed because somehow I cannot find the right analogies for engine, windows, keys, wipers and so many other miscellaneous things. However I have just sparked a flame. It would be great if all the readers can chip in with theirs two cents about the equation between life and the car…
Jay
3 comments:
hehe... mazaa aagya.. US wasiyon ka dil hi nahi fir.. yahan clutch nahi operate karte hum.. hehehe :D
hehe...Yea..... i mean we can change and put engine as the heart...lol
Sahee... Nice comparison ..
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