I often find I’m most creative driving in my car.\u00a0 (I’ll wax poetic about how much I love my baby later, when I’ve got a pix.)<\/p>\n
When you see a make\/model\/type\/color of a car you make instant judgements about the driver.\u00a0\u00a0 Because you assume they chose that vehicle for a reason and that alone telegraphs things about them.\u00a0\u00a0 And humans are trained from birth to try and pick up the littlest nuance about the world around them.<\/p>\n
Yet sometimes when you pull up to that particular car you are surprised by what<\/span>\u00a0 who is driving it.\u00a0 The vehicle is saying one thing but the interior is saying something COMPLETELY different.<\/p>\n The point…yes there is one, even though it seems I meander hopelessly.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The point is people are like cars.\u00a0 Our bodies are just the vehicles our craziness<\/span>\u00a0 personality rides in.\u00a0\u00a0 But it’s also the physical expression of our personality.\u00a0<\/p>\n Now before we all start screaming the debate of Nature vs Nurture, let’s look at twins.\u00a0 Same basic template, two different souls…how do they differ as they age?\u00a0\u00a0 Look at the two actors in the Disney show Suite Life of Zach and Cody.\u00a0 You can see one starting to get a little chunkier.\u00a0 I imagine that’s the personality making decisions that alter the template.\u00a0 (I’d rather play video games and eat than play ball.)<\/p>\n On the flip side to that is the fact that our bodies influence us tremendously.\u00a0 It tells us when its hungry (ALL the time), tired and probably a million other signals on the unconscious level.\u00a0 That has an impact on the personality template.\u00a0 So I imagine it’s a hideous dance<\/span>\u00a0 wonderful balance between the two.<\/p>\n Then you factor in “free will” and you get back to what your car choice says about you.\u00a0 Statistically, a very high number of obese women were sexually abused in some way in their childhood.\u00a0 The fat is a defense mechanism to make themselves unattractive so “that” won’t happen again.\u00a0 Works incredibly well!\u00a0\u00a0 Doesn’t make the woman happy, though.\u00a0<\/p>\n I could go on and on comparing cars to people and what their choices say about who they are.\u00a0\u00a0 But we’ve heard it all before.\u00a0 We know all this and still make our own choices for our own reasons.\u00a0\u00a0 Free will, remember.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You\u00a0choose a vehicle for your own reasons and then think you can’t change that vehicle, even though you’ve changed, just because its still a perfectly good vehicle with plenty of miles still left on it.<\/p>\n But we can customize it!\u00a0\u00a0 Keep it washed and waxed so it shines.\u00a0 Put bumper stickers that reflect the driver’s personality and blast our music out the open windows.\u00a0<\/p>\n I don’t know if anyone else other than me does this, but I often forget what people really look like.\u00a0 In my memory they are just their personality.\u00a0\u00a0 The packaging that personality is in, I often forget the details, green eyes vs. blue eyes, etc.\u00a0 Not saying I’m not going to recognize you…but I just cease to recognize certain aspects of the “car” you’re driving.\u00a0 I forget the make and model and just see enough basics to match you physically with that sparkling soul that is you in my memory.\u00a0<\/p>\n Maybe it’s because I’m weird…or a writer…or just a Californian.\u00a0 I rarely “define” a person by their exterior.\u00a0 If I like you its because of the driver in the car.\u00a0\u00a0 And guess what…if you annoy me, irritate me, disgust me or piss me off…well again, THE DRIVER!<\/p>\n Not that the Chassie isn’t important!\u00a0 Personality aside if you’re ‘vehicle’ is screaming “don’t have sex with me” I’m gonna hear it and so is everyone else no matter what the driver happens to be yelling out the window!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I often find I’m most creative driving in my car.\u00a0 (I’ll wax poetic about how much I love my baby later, when I’ve got a pix.) When you see a make\/model\/type\/color of a car you make instant judgements about the … Continue reading