Fail of the century #11: Chevrolet Aveo

Our time on this planet is short and precious. Unless scientists succeed in unlocking that knotty ‘secret of eternal life’ thing sometime soon, statistically you’re looking at about 700,000 hours of conscious, corporeal existence upon this mortal coil. Sounds like a decent chunk of time, but remember you’ll spend close to half of those hours sleeping, and a significant chunk of the rest consumed by the tedious, necessary administrivia of living: emptying the dishwasher, resetting your password for online banking, refilling the dishwasher.

Which leaves a soberingly tiny slice of time to enjoy the myriad joys that life on earth has to offer. So it is the responsibility, the very duty, of all of us to make the most of every valuable minute of being alive, right now, on this strange little blue-green orb floating in space.

The sands of time sink too quickly. To exist is an extraordinary privilege. Do not spend it fretting over past regrets, or future worries. Spend it in savouring the company of your nearest and dearest: eating, laughing, embracing. Spend it travelling. Learning. Reading high quality car magazines. And, most importantly, do not, under any circumstances, spend one single second of your sacred, irreplaceable time on earth driving a Chevrolet Aveo.