It was a great day. I got to change Josh's oil in his car. There is a sense of satisfaction in maintaining a vehicle yourself. It's not just the money that is saved, or the saved trip and wait at the Jiffy Lube... it's about the personal satisfaction of productivity with tangible objects that require attention. The pride I feel when I change the oil in a friends car, or my own, or for the tune up's/rebuilds I give to motorcycles is pretty spectacular. It's not that I own the motorcycle, and it runs... it's that I own the motorcycle, I know the condition of it's various parts, and when I am riding I take joy in the fact that it runs cause I made it run again.
Often times, we wonder if we are effective, if we make a difference, or really even capable people. I am convinced that a large reason we have those doubts is that many things we do tend to not be concrete but rather theoretical and distant. For instance, working with numbers on a computer screen for a cog in the business plan. Where do we really ever get to stand back and say, "Ah, look... this is what I have accomplished and finished on my own".
Those are some quick thoughts about changing oil.
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