The Wednesday Play: Trust & Loyalty

Hi Playmakers!

I cried this week. A lot.

Not because something bad happened, but because I said goodbye to a car.

Now, I know this might sound a bit weird, but this was not just any car. This car was the first thing that my then-newlywed husband Pavle and I ever bought together.

I was 23, had never owned anything new, and we pulled together every dollar we had to buy a $16,500 Mazda3. That car took us across the continent, through 30 states, across the border into Mexico and Canada, and into every new chapter of our lives.

Even when we started to see our careers take off as executives in Silicon Valley and our bank accounts balloon, we kept driving that car. Then, we moved to the foothills of Los Angeles and proudly kept parking our loyal sidekick amongst a sea of Porsches and Range Rovers.

We didn’t care. We started with nothing, and that little car carried us through everything.