Check Engine Light

I stumbled onto the above picture this morning. The picture is in various places on the Web. I don’t know where it originated but if you do a Google image search for “define necessity”, you’ll see the other web sites and blogs that have posted it before I did.

The picture reminded me that I have almost 175,000 miles on my 98 Accord but it’s still running great, knock on wood. I almost bought a new car a couple years ago, thinking that it was a “necessity”, but I decided not to.

For the last week, my car’s check engine light had been on. Yesterday, I finished a meeting early and on the way back, ran into traffic on the freeway. I decided to take the surface streets and stop by my mechanic so he can take a look at the check engine light. Within a couple blocks of the mechanic shop, the check engine light turned off. I kept driving and now have one less thing to worry about.

“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.”
—Soren Kierkegaard

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