I like your analogy okay, hankster, but I would mention the car a bit more often My life is the car that keeps being smashed into the wall by the dummy who is allegedly "driving" it only, as a dummy, not very well. Eventually, with therapy (therapist is a car designer and overseer/critic of the crash testing, Ralph Nader if you will) I learn to manage my life and self better/smarter so when a crash happens the life and dummy can recover to crash another day.