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balmofgileadOk, small reality check of sorts, here: I'm buying my first car (well, I use "buying" loosely here--I'm far from actually handing over money to whatever yet-unknown person I will buy from). It is possible that I will overpay, or not be 1000% happy in a few weeks, or that something will go wrong with the car at some point down the line that, had I known it would happen, I wouldn't have bought the car.
Obviously it'll be better if these things don't happen, and I will take some reasonable precautions, including having a mechanic look over a car before I actually fork over money. But if something does happen? Not the end of the world. So maybe I'll end up overpaying a little--so there goes some other stupid thing I could have bought with the extra money. Or if something breaks--so that's some time out of commission and (again) some more money to spend for repairs. Overall--the freedom of having a car will far outweigh these things. {Maybe some people don't have to go through this in their heads, but hey...I had bad modelling when I was growing up. Going to the laundromat for 3 years, when you have the money to buy a washer/dryer but just can't make a decision you're positive you'll be happy with...this is not the behavior of healthy, decisive people.)
I'm thinking I'll hold out for a car with 4 doors, though. My mom pointed out that moving anything in a 2-door car is a pain. My inner child pointed out to me that it is difficult to transport reasonable-sized dogs in 2-door cars. Besides, something smaller than a 4-door corolla or civic is probably a bad idea for me, given that I haven't been driving that long. Hmm.
{but god I hate how materialistic I seem to have become over the past month. maybe it's the season--good ol' holiday sales and advertising, or maybe it's that I'm beginning to have enough money that I can begin to ponder buying things. it's probably a combination of the two. Flat-panel monitors and digital cameras can wait...indefinitely, really. Car is a priority, as is paying some rent to my mother, followed by seeing a fucking dermatologist because my skin is overly expressive. I'm rather fond of the thought of having a somewhat delayed/extended adolescence, but I did *not* invite my skin to follow me along into that.)
Obviously it'll be better if these things don't happen, and I will take some reasonable precautions, including having a mechanic look over a car before I actually fork over money. But if something does happen? Not the end of the world. So maybe I'll end up overpaying a little--so there goes some other stupid thing I could have bought with the extra money. Or if something breaks--so that's some time out of commission and (again) some more money to spend for repairs. Overall--the freedom of having a car will far outweigh these things. {Maybe some people don't have to go through this in their heads, but hey...I had bad modelling when I was growing up. Going to the laundromat for 3 years, when you have the money to buy a washer/dryer but just can't make a decision you're positive you'll be happy with...this is not the behavior of healthy, decisive people.)
I'm thinking I'll hold out for a car with 4 doors, though. My mom pointed out that moving anything in a 2-door car is a pain. My inner child pointed out to me that it is difficult to transport reasonable-sized dogs in 2-door cars. Besides, something smaller than a 4-door corolla or civic is probably a bad idea for me, given that I haven't been driving that long. Hmm.
{but god I hate how materialistic I seem to have become over the past month. maybe it's the season--good ol' holiday sales and advertising, or maybe it's that I'm beginning to have enough money that I can begin to ponder buying things. it's probably a combination of the two. Flat-panel monitors and digital cameras can wait...indefinitely, really. Car is a priority, as is paying some rent to my mother, followed by seeing a fucking dermatologist because my skin is overly expressive. I'm rather fond of the thought of having a somewhat delayed/extended adolescence, but I did *not* invite my skin to follow me along into that.)
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Date: 2006-12-03 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-05 04:10 am (UTC)Anyway...(yeah, Dave, are you going to actually give a purposeful reply?)...I can relate to the difficulty of the car-buying decision, or any seemingly positive life-milestone decision. If you are like me, these things wind up being anti-climactic if you think about them for too long. When you overthink, you think a lot about what might go wrong, but you also spend considerable time thinking about how great it might be. In the end, things typically turn now somewhere in the middle, in an anti-climactic place that hadn't entered your mind. "Yeah, I got my car! But, ok, now that that's done, I've got to worry about [insert whatever is next]" or simply "Now what?" (I know I project my experiences often, and they may be far off the mark from what you're thinking....)
On a related note, being busy in a full-time job does seriously cut down on overthinking, and that is generally a good thing. You just have to be wary of the inevitable weekend or holiday (or, in the worst case, random mid-week day) that your brain insists you stop and take some time to think, and then you can't get out of the overthinking mode. (sorry for using your LJ to project thoughts that should probably go into mind...)