There are three things of monetary value that I really treasure: my bed, car, and computer. I think I will make three separate posts on each one because I think they warrant that. Or maybe I'll just clump the other two I'll be talking about together because they probably don't.
Out of the three, my car is the one I really treasure the most. I love driving my car. I would love to just take a long drive up the state at night while listening to music or while talking with someone else. Sometimes on my way home from school, church, or wherever I happen to be I purposely take a longer route just so I can drive longer. If I'm feeling down or angry I'll just hop into my car and drive around. And probably most importantly it is the place where I make the most space for God.
It sounds like I really just like driving so allow me to elaborate. The biggest reason I treasure my car so much is because it is the one place where I feel like I am alone. It's a little hard for me to express what this exactly means, so I apologize in advance. Right now it is 3:12AM, everyone that I talk to and everyone in the various houses around me are asleep. I certainly feel alone, but I would actually feel more alone if I was surrounded in traffic at 9PM in my car. I think the difference lies in the fact that no one can really hear me unless they roll down their windows and I'm yelling/the music is very loud and everyone is (hopefully, although there are many bad drivers here) concentrated on the road so no one is paying attention to me.
It is because I have this kind of isolation in my car that I am able to do a lot of the various things I don't really want to do when anyone is nearby (not that silly). Probably the most frequent thing I do in my car is rap/sing along to the songs that are currently playing. I often park somewhere and eat fast food in my car in silence while enjoying the solitude. If I want to listen to album I just found I'll listen to it in my car. I feel very safe in my car.
This is all to say that I really do treasure my car. At the very least I value what it allows me to do and the space that it provides so that I can do these things. I think that one day even if I have some house/apartment/shack that is very isolated I will still feel this way about whatever car I have. And if I don't, my car will always have a special place in my heart.
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