Terrie’s Tip – Keep your tires inflated and in good repair but don’t neglect care of the inside of your vehicle (your body).

So I’m sure those of you who saw my deflated tire yesterday expected a post on flat tires…and since I would hate to disappoint, here ya go!

Let’s look at the tire, ok? Well, maybe not…first we should look at the vehicle. There are plenty of uses for tires off of vehicles but their primary use is to help make a vehicle move smoothly. The wheel shape and the material used to make it all are part of it. But would we need tires without a vehicle? Probably not, Then it would just be called a wheel. We use vehicles to take us from place to place. Just as we use our bodies to take us from place to place. Do most of us go out every time we’re going to run to the store (or did before the pandemic anyway) and kick the tires and check the air pressure and alignment, etc.? I would venture to say no, most of us don’t. Often times we don’t even think anything of our tires until our vehicle (our bodies) start to act up.

• We shimmy
• We hear noises that didn’t use to be there
• We don’t stop as quickly and safely as we used to

But even then we often ignore the signs until it’s too late. Yet, we will stop and take our car to the car wash to get it to look pretty again. But that’s generally the outside. Maybe we’ll clean the inside when we have time but….

Many of us want to look nice on the outside so we worry about our weight, our muscles or lack thereof, our clothes, our hair (well I need to get up to speed on that one with my covid hair) and anything else that we think others might judge us by. No one ever thinks that they will be judged by how horrible their body may look on the inside.After all – who’s going to judge us? We tend not to think of the importance of the operation of these internal organs – the engine.

When our tires deflate we have to (or should) stop. This is our body telling us to stop and take a look at what’s going on in our lives (bodies). It’s a fitting metaphor that the air goes out of the tire and it deflates. Our ability to move around and go at the speed we want is suddenly deflated. We need to be getting the message here.

If we’re going at a very fast speed, that deflation may cause further damage and we really get the message. That is telling us we are moving through life way too fast and not paying attention to anything other the external factors.

If we’re not going so fast, we may have time to get to the side of the road and stop to repair your tire.

I’ll stop here even though i could go on and on with this but I think you get the point.

Check your tires.