Heart rule my head… Moi?

I saw my old car yesterday.

Very strange because I never thought I would be able to recognise it. I was walking down a local village high street when I spotted a small scrape on the rear of a wing mirror. It was caused when I drove up to a car park exit booth and the wing mirror just scraped the casing. So fine that it took a thin sliver of paint off, a scrape that you couldn’t replicate even if you tried!

And that was what I saw yesterday.

I got rid of that car, a Jaguar XKR cabriolet, because my head told me that it wasn’t financially viable. With the cost of petrol seemingly rising on a daily basis it had become just too expensive to run. So I over ruled my heart and quite sensibly said goodbye to ‘my car’ and replaced it with a very nice looking Audi A5 cabriolet with a diesel engine. Much more economical.

But it wasn’t until yesterday that I realised that actually I’m not very sensible at all!

When I saw ‘the Jag’ I realised that driving in the Audi had become boring. Don’t get me wrong the Audi is a very reliable car, very functional, very German. And the Germans have after all set the standard for cars.

But just…… boring.

I realised that I no longer enjoy driving….. anywhere. Driving has become an activity like walking up the stairs, it’s something you have to do to get from one place to another.

I no longer get up early of a morning ‘just to go for a drive’ with the roof down. I don’t jump in the car to pop up the shops when I don’t need to go shopping. And I don’t relish the idea of taking the hood down no matter what the weather.

So yesterday when I saw ‘my car’ I realised that I was right to let it go and get a sensible car, because financially I’m tons better off. But actually my heart still yearns for the joy of ‘the Jag’. A car that when you drive it you feel happy, you feel emotional, you experience joy at the responsiveness, the thrill as the exhaust burbles and the sheer delight of being ‘at one’ with ‘the car’.

So let my heart rule my head… Moi? Most definitely! (next time!)

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