neo

only metal…

One week to the day, myself nor any of my passengers are in a hospital. All of us are healing. Please join me in prayer that we have no lingering pains. Although it’s only metal I do miss my car. A few of my closer friends know about it’s name…neo. Yeah, you heard right, I gave it a guy name LOL.

I really like that movie, The Matrix. I connect deeply with the the religious and spiritual references. Giving the car the name neo was a reminder that this was a new beginning for me in my life back in Jamaica. I bought it two years old in 2011 but it was a new car because it sat on the lot for those two years. No one wanted a white car. White still has that “deportee” stigma attached to it (used cars from Japan were called deportees when they first came to Jamaica, still are in many cases). So there it sat, waiting to be bought. I was initially thinking of a Swift because I witnessed just how tough they were in accidents. Hmmnn, funny how life is. I bought the 2 instead because I really liked the styling (hey I’m a designer) and discovered it was the International Car of the Year in 2008 and it was an incredible handler. So I went with it. Plus Rennique at Executive Motors was just a really awesome sales associate. So I drove it off the lot. A few months into owning the car I would realize there was something very different about this car.

It would play certain songs at certain times on the radio. I’m talking from multiple stations that would be just ideal for the moment. At first I just wrote it off as coincidence until one day I was…