Dude… Dude… Duuuuude: Supercharged Subaru Slammed BRZ

Dude… dude… just freakin’ do it already.

What’s the hold up? Whatever it is you’re after. Whatever you’re stuck on, whether it be cars, travel, career, relationship status. Just. Jump. In.

Is that always the best advice??

Yeah f*ck it I think so.

Usually.

I mean… if you die, you went too far dummy. But usually when your heart gets stuck on something… that’s because it’s right.

1) Your heart is essentially your spirit on this earth. 2) Your spirit needs to be heard. 3) And it’s heard when you follow your heart.

Your brain is the ‘risk calculator’. It’s the financial planner and/or the band manager. Your heart is the dreamer… the artist… the romantic.

But they’re in this together (literally)… so there needs to be a trust alliance lol. And a little faith in your ability to prevail.

Heres the thing… people are scared-stiff of failure. But when you’re following your heart, you’re not gonna fail. I mean… ‘failure’ is kind of a made-up imaginary monster to a certain extent. You may fall… and fall again. But you can only put the official ‘FAILURE STAMP’ on it when you decide to roll over & quit. There’s always a Door #2, or 3, or 4.

A lot of times in life, the journey is the lesson. And the journeys we take… shape our paths. They develop our character traits, our belief systems, our core values, our peer groups… our ability to problem solve, adapt, risk-take, and bounce back from adversity.

If you always make the safe & sound choice… do you really win in the end? Put another way… if you never let the water get above your knees, did you really swim? If you never took the training wheels off, did you really ride a bike? Life is an experience. It’s about interacting with things, feeling things, and absorbing things. It’s not about competing with some other jackass and his version of success.

Anyway – this little toast was inspired by Mark Craig & his BRZ. Mark was fresh out of college when the BRZ came out. He had maybe gotten 2 paychecks from his first real job when found out that Subaru was gonna kill the Galaxy Blue Silica color on the BRZ for the following year. The timing was off, but he wanted this car, and he wanted it in this damn color… so tracked down 1 of the last 2 remaining new Galaxy Blue BRZs in the country, and he took the plunge. Hands down changed his life! Mark was barely a car guy before he bought this car. Now – car culture is at the core of who he is. A lot of y’all are on that virtual tipping point… where adulthood is trying to define you & set you straight. It doesn’t have to be cars. Or – it can be cars + many other things. But the point is: You define it; it doesn’t define you.