Yesterday’s Ride
Just about every day, I drive by this rusty old car and have never really thought much about it. When I realized it was a Cadillac, I was kind of stunned. Stunned because it seems too ugly to be a Cadillac! It’s like an “alien” compared to today’s Cadillacs. (Those headlights do look a bit weird, don’t they?!)
But just think, someone actually designed that Cadillac, down to the smallest details, intentionally determining the spacing, proportions and shapes that made it that year’s model. Then thousands of people who liked how the car looked bought it and drove it home, probably with great pride and joy!
Yet with the passing of time, this particular Cadillac — whose owner presumably had once thought it to be attractive — now sits rusting away at the edge of a field.
Of course, most everything does eventually rust or decompose. And many of the products we once favored, in time, become candidates either for Good Will or the landfill.
What changes? Is it us, or the things we possess? Or perhaps both?
It has been written in an ageless book that the things that are seen are temporary, and the things that are not seen are eternal. When I think of the many things I’ve owned over the years, it does make me pause and consider what’s really important — and what’s not.
MORE TO COME! Check out the interesting follow-up article to this post, titled Something Old, Something New.
