In the last few weeks, but even more in the last week since I found out my wife is pregnant, I've been steadily losing interest in my car. Now before eveyone starts in with the usual "Oh my god, are you selling your car" nonsense, I'll explain.
It's got nothing to do with me selling my car, or getting out of the car scene or anything like that. I'm just tired of the car for now. I'm tired of always working on it, dumping money into it, and worrying about it. I keep finding myself stressing over when I'm going to buy this part, when I'm going to install this, what order I'm going to do these mods in, and blah blah blah. I've also noticed I keep modding all these things on my car, and while they have me stoked when I do them, they're not doing anything for me a few weeks later like they were before. In the 3 months since I've owned the new E30, I've dropped just over $2k into it. While I still love my car to death and it's NOT going anywhere, I've just lost interest in it for the most part.
One of the other motivating factors for this recent change of heart is the growing desire to get back to my first love and obsession, playing music. I've been a bassist for going on 12 years now, and pretty good if you don't mind my gloating about it. I sold my bass and my rather nice and large amp when I moved back to town 4 years ago because I was broke, and I've been kicking myself in the ass ever since. When I had my band and we were playing shows, it was probably the happiest I've ever been. I played in ska bands, punk bands, hardcore bands, and I had a great time doing it. I want to get into some newer styles, I've really been getting into bands like The Mars Volta, Motion City Soundtrack, Alkaline Trio, and other stuff like that, as well as a lot of hardcore and metal.
I just think it's time for a change, something different. I've been dumping every penny I've got, as well as countless hours of labor and sweat into this hobby for going on 4 years now, and while it's not that I'm not into it anymore, I just want to do something else for a while. I'm going to be having a child soon, and once I've settled into a rhythm with that, and things get back to normal, I'll get back into the car again. Maybe with not the same feverish spending, but you never know what I'll be doing for a job then! I'll be done with school, and could end up finding something very lucrative, who knows?
I'll still be frequenting the board since I have a lot of friends here, and probably still auto-xing. And yes, to you PNW guys, I'll still be at the picnic. I'm not leaving my car for good, and I'm not just going to let it sit in the driveway and get dirty. Like I said, it's just time for something different, time to get back to doing something ELSE that makes me happy.
It's got nothing to do with me selling my car, or getting out of the car scene or anything like that. I'm just tired of the car for now. I'm tired of always working on it, dumping money into it, and worrying about it. I keep finding myself stressing over when I'm going to buy this part, when I'm going to install this, what order I'm going to do these mods in, and blah blah blah. I've also noticed I keep modding all these things on my car, and while they have me stoked when I do them, they're not doing anything for me a few weeks later like they were before. In the 3 months since I've owned the new E30, I've dropped just over $2k into it. While I still love my car to death and it's NOT going anywhere, I've just lost interest in it for the most part.
One of the other motivating factors for this recent change of heart is the growing desire to get back to my first love and obsession, playing music. I've been a bassist for going on 12 years now, and pretty good if you don't mind my gloating about it. I sold my bass and my rather nice and large amp when I moved back to town 4 years ago because I was broke, and I've been kicking myself in the ass ever since. When I had my band and we were playing shows, it was probably the happiest I've ever been. I played in ska bands, punk bands, hardcore bands, and I had a great time doing it. I want to get into some newer styles, I've really been getting into bands like The Mars Volta, Motion City Soundtrack, Alkaline Trio, and other stuff like that, as well as a lot of hardcore and metal.
I just think it's time for a change, something different. I've been dumping every penny I've got, as well as countless hours of labor and sweat into this hobby for going on 4 years now, and while it's not that I'm not into it anymore, I just want to do something else for a while. I'm going to be having a child soon, and once I've settled into a rhythm with that, and things get back to normal, I'll get back into the car again. Maybe with not the same feverish spending, but you never know what I'll be doing for a job then! I'll be done with school, and could end up finding something very lucrative, who knows?
I'll still be frequenting the board since I have a lot of friends here, and probably still auto-xing. And yes, to you PNW guys, I'll still be at the picnic. I'm not leaving my car for good, and I'm not just going to let it sit in the driveway and get dirty. Like I said, it's just time for something different, time to get back to doing something ELSE that makes me happy.
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