\u201cOne day, I\u2019m going to buy a Ferrari!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nM\u2019s Dream of Buying a Ferrari<\/h3>\n
M came from a well-to-do family: his father was a school principal, and his mother was a preschool teacher. He was a polite, grounded young man with a bit of a sheltered upbringing. The cautious type, M landed a job at a bank after graduation, steadily moved up the ranks, got married, and had two children. From the outside, it looked like he was following a textbook path to a successful life.<\/p>\n
I ran into M the other day for the first time in years.<\/p>\n
It turned out he\u2019d left the bank to work for the prefectural government.<\/strong>(From one very buttoned-up workplace to an even more buttoned-up one\u2026)<\/span> It sounded like he\u2019d had his share of challenges, but all in all, he seemed to be doing well. So I asked him:<\/p>\nMe: \u201cBy the way, remember how you said back in college that you were going to buy a Ferrari? How\u2019s that going?\u201d
\nM: \u201cOh, come on. There\u2019s no way I can do that. I\u2019m a civil servant.\u201d<\/p>\n
Being a civil servant doesn\u2019t mean he can\u2019t buy one. He might change jobs again, for all we know. I\u2019d say the odds are fifty-fifty. Don\u2019t say something so boring, my friend.<\/strong> Besides, we\u2019re still young.<\/strong>(We\u2019re already well into our forties, but I still feel like I\u2019m in my late twenties.)<\/span><\/p>\nJust then, M came back with this:<\/p>\n
M: \u201cWere you into cars back in college?\u201d
\nMe: \u201cNot really. I got into them because of my husband.\u201d
\nM: \u201cDo you drive now?\u201d
\nMe: \u201cYeah.\u201d
\nM: \u201cWhat do you drive?\u201d
\nMe: \u201cA Panamera.\u201d
\nM: \u201cA-a-a Panamera?! ((((\uff1b\uff9f\u0414\uff9f))))!!(Like \u201cP-p-p-Puffy\u201d? That reference is showing its age.)<\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nI tried to tell him, \u201cHey, I didn\u2019t buy it\u2014my husband did. I\u2019m not the impressive one here!\u201d But he didn\u2019t hear a word. His eyes lit up as he asked, \u201cThat\u2019s so cool! Where do you take your Panamera?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cHmm, I drive it every day, but mostly to pick up my daughter from preschool and go to the co-op. Sometimes I take the highway for work.\u201d At that, he looked as if his soul had left his body and said:<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026What? That\u2019s a waste of a-mera.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nA waste of a-mera? I couldn\u2019t tell whether M had just made a clever pun or a terrible one, but his enthusiasm dropped through the floor.<\/strong><\/p>\nMe: \u201cBut my goal is to buy a Panamera with my own money. So come on, let\u2019s work toward that Ferrari.\u201d
\nM: \u201cI told you, it\u2019s impossible. A minivan is plenty for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2026and that was the end of the conversation.<\/p>\n
Still, there\u2019s no guarantee you\u2019ll be able to buy one,<\/strong> but there\u2019s no guarantee you won\u2019t, either.<\/strong> You can come up with endless reasons why something can\u2019t be done. Life has to be more interesting if you focus instead on figuring out how to make it happen. The dreams we had as students may have seemed unrealistic at the time, but there\u2019s something cool about continuing to chase those big, seemingly impossible dreams well into adulthood.<\/p>\nPeople might say, He\u2019s a dreamer.<\/q> But if you eventually reach your goal, they\u2019ll turn around and say, \u201cHe actually went and did it!\u201d<\/strong> And suddenly, the whole story changes.<\/strong> I\u2019ll do more than just talk, too\u2014so come on, let\u2019s give it another shot, my friend.<\/p>\nThese days, I find myself vaguely remembering that conversation from time to time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Supercars We Dream About I came across this article: Top 20 Most Popular Imported Cars by Make and Type, Plus Used-Car Prices It included a ranking titled Top 3 Dream Supercar Brands. Here\u2019s how the brands placed: 1st: Ferrari 2nd: Lamborghini 3rd: Porsche That got me thinking about M, a classmate from my university seminar. Back then, he used to say with real passion, \u201cOne day, I\u2019m going to buy a Ferrari!\u201d M\u2019s Dream...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.panamera-life.com\/?p=99","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[206],"class_list":["post-36417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nocar-nolife","tag-ferrari","en-US"],"yoast_head":"
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