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I wanted to start this thread long back, just as I got my membership approved but I was never confident whether the report would be long enough to provide the insights that are generally present in ownership threads. The ownership experience has always been dicey where one day I am so frustrated that I want to put an advertisement on Olx and bid adieu and the next day, I am grinning with joy as I hit the highway with the car.
Owning a Duster is comparable to being in a relationship in your early twenties and I am in the right phase to compare both perfectly. It all starts with dreamy eyes and exchanging glances, the secret crush you stalk, seeing others in such relationships and feeling lonely at times, wanting and hoping that someday you will be mine, and only mine, and we will conquer the world, reach all heights, travel together, spend quality time, be there for each other, make each other happy and most importantly, take the long road together.
Then comes the phase when you end up together, the proposal has been accepted and vows of seeing a future together have been exchanged. You start to enjoy the honeymoon phase where you feel loved, constantly around each other, pampering each other, making time for the late-night drives, and the small runaways making small yet significant memories. When you stop for a tea break on a rainy evening, sipping the hot tea and turning towards your love exchanging glances and you tell yourself how lucky you are.
You spend a couple of months together and your partner now enjoys your company a lot but then she sucks away the peace and the tantrums have started to pour in. Sometimes she will end up fogging the windshield, sometimes it will be an O-Ring leaking. Small issues will start cropping up and then there will be the major tantrums where she will be in such a mood that she will light up my dashes like Christmas lights and BOOM, it is the dreaded ‘injector’.
This is when you start questioning yourself, have you made the right choice, or did you make a hasty decision. Should you have waited a bit more and taken things slowly? Why hadn’t you observed such relationships around, taken the red flags, and steered away from such a relationship? At this point you feel like leaving, calling for a break, and when it just gets too much to handle, maybe leave for good, break-up from this relationship which sucks away the peace and fills up with tantrums, negativity, and toxicity. You start to feel maybe this is where you are supposed to walk away, maybe spend some time alone to find oneself or maybe find someone stable and safe, a relationship which feels at peace even if it lacks the feeling of butterflies in your stomach.
But my dear friends, as I’ve already told you that the relationship is like that of the early twenties where you are high on idealism and low on realism. Even after everything, you just can’t leave her. You can’t walk out thinking of the memories and the promises. What if she is the ‘One’? What if all it takes is a bit more patience to be happy together for a lifetime and beyond? You try to ignore the issues and look forward to the good times, the times when she makes you smile, makes you grin with joy, makes memories with you, the adrenaline rush she brings in the relationship. And thus, you stick around, like the relationships of your twenties hoping she is the one for you, forever. And before reality kicks in, I would like to be the romantic fool, deeply in love with the Duster, hoping that the tantrums are temporary and a lifetime of happiness is in store for us together.
And that’s US, together!
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