Soe: theta $- a ters 2 e Passion: My Way or the Highway 77 900d tHE} Net j UMP People talk about the word “passion” a lot, but does anyone actually know what it means? right! | 7 | Persnany : ‘To me it means to have a strong interest in Something. But to someone else it could mean so t 1s Moe Wout { ings? more than an interest, it could be their whole life. To keep things in perspective, I will be Not beg ‘writing about the definition as I see it. Although it is a strong interest, I do not think that my life cr; in consumed by my passion for automobiles. Muck Ever since I was a child of four years old I have loved cars. My favorite toys as a kid a we were my Hot Wheels cars; I had at least 100 of them. I'm sure that my parents hated them though $ wget because they were always scattered all over my room and most of the house, providing a n@ ineo constant obstacle course. Hot Wheels were not the only childhood memories I had that were car related, though, like some of my favorite childhood movies and songs. ‘Most of the movies and songs that I like are car relatéd. Pixar's animated movie “Cars” was a childhood favorite along with Disney's “Herbie Fully Loaded.” The movie “Christine,” based off of Stephen King’s book by the same name, is also a cherished title, but not from my te? childhood, “Christine” is about a car that has a homicidal rage to kill the enemies of its new owner and eventually “her” owner too. Other non-childhood memories, like songs, are car related as well. Even if the artist’s actual intentions behind a song are different than how I see them, I still love songs about cars. Songs like “Cruise,” by Florida Georgia Line, “Shut Up and gs f Yave omy ot these Gongs OKI rode you laugh, Cry or dream? Substance iS KeY here,Drive,” by Rihanna, and “Life is a Highway,” by Rascal Flats are three examples of songs that like that are at least loosely based on driving cars, even if they have deeper meanings. However bizarre a movie might be, like “Christine,” or how seemingly unrelated a song might be, like “Cruise,” if itis loosely car-oriented I tend to love it, Does theS hinder you in any woys Perhaps youre @ , mechanical @ other vehicles, I would look at the make and model of it. Knowing the year of the cars hasfust e engineer ‘come with time and recognizing which vehicles looked familiar. b £ ind ing + . \ i jad 4. Us weal sod + interests Agee i hard $0 This ability has been useful to me in social situations, etme htt was willy, keep imees) Cay two best friends a a local diner, It was a really old and run-down diner with white and green /) 5 % Kne ne My interest has never been mechanical though. I know very little about how cars actually, work. My interest lies within the realm of appreciating the final product. [astound my friends with my ability to name the make, model, and year of just about any car that would pass by Us o the street. I have not really spent much time researching cars to have that ability. think that it comes from always taking road trips with my family when I was younger. As we would pass C4 tiled floors and walls. The wooden booths inside were very uncomfortable as well. So apart from Yngne complaining about the booths or making comments on how good the restaurant smelled from the Ph Cy burgers that were being made for us on the grill, we had little to talk about since we were all ; prety tired. To keep conversation going and,keep my friends from being bored, I started to name all of the vehicles that passed by us outside of the diner. 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