The idea that you are owner of a car is a nice one. It assures you that you are not alone in this world, there is a car that stands by you.

The first thing it does is it pampers your ego. Your ego expands with the area of the car it covers, bigger the car, bigger the ego. Your ego will be more inflated if the car is of latest model and the brand is a prestigious one, like Mercedes, BMW or Ferrari etc. etc. This sense that you are the owner of a high value car gives you a sense of superiority over the people who cycle, board a bus, ride on a scooter, or use auto ricksaw or a taxi or simply walk The second thing it makes you mobile. You can go to office, to party, to colleagues home or friends house etc. In emergency you can take someone to hospital or nursing home. God forbids such an occasion does not come in your life. You can further show off if you do not drive but have a Chauffeur and every time you get in or get out of the car he salutes you. You can also give a lift to a poor friend of yours, if you see someone waiting for a bus and impress him with your AC and the music system. You will enjoy the appreciation of your car from your poor friend and tell him the story how you chose this car over others and how much you have spent on this alone. Of course, you will always carry a dormant tension lurking in your mind that your car may be hit by someone.

Still, you enjoy the height of ego pampering and live happily thereafter.

The idea that you do not own a car makes you free of tension. You park your costly car by the road side while you sleep between four walls, your car gets cold in winter, gets wet in rain and heats up in summer. You have no sympathy for the machine that takes you places.

You have to catch a train, you have to catch a flight, you call for a cab and leave your car behind. Car driving involves a risk of accident anytime; break traffic rule and the traffic police waiting to challan you; pay road tax; argue and compensate if you hit someone. Get your car checked for pollution. You go to a party and if your car is not of latest model, you will have hard time hiding it from others quite far off from place of party. You will take pride in having a chauffeur but when he will ask for a rise, your accounting sense will fail you. You will not know how to do it. The chauffeur will definitely manage to earn some money when he will get the petrol tank filled . Any repair work, he is there to manage some earning. You cannot avoid it. If your office is on the Metro line, then your car becomes almost useless. Parking is a great problem wherever you may go. It takes your vital time in searching for parking space and getting it out and still pay the parking charge. If you go to an unknown place keep on asking people whereas the cab driver will know almost all the milestone of the city where you live. . Now calculate how much you spend on your car every month just to give you the sense of mobility and the pride of being a owner of a car. It almost slipped from my mind although I do sympathise the young chaps who by the wink of your eyelid may vanish your car and leave you gaping. The next 48 hours you would have forgotten your sleep and rest till you find your broken car left somewhere with your AC and music system gone. This will happen even if you use your all high connections.

So why to own a car when you can do without one.