What relationships have a positive impact on you? Not a bad question to ponder given that relationships change over time.

Luckily for me there are a great number of relationships that have had a positive impact on me. All my close friends and family of course. A great deal of professional relationships has positively affected my life.

But instead of the typical praise upon a person or group, I’m going to reflect on an unusual positive impact. It’s not a person.

It’s my car. Each time I get in my car I feel good. Each time I start the ignition it feels better. And when I get out on some back roads it feels great.

It’s the first time since my early youth that I’ve had a car I’m proud of and that is fun to drive. It’s nothing much, just a little Miata MX5. But there is something from the first time I saw and drove it that I fell in love with.

The relationship hits 10 years now, and I’m certain it will start giving me some problems to deal with but that is okay because the upside is so great.