My name is Lionel.

From Argentina.

I have always

been a fan of sports cars. I´ll be honest, I'm not a car expert like Toreto but I like them. A couple of years ago I promised myself that the day I would buy a sports car for the first time, it would be a 2012 Mitsubishi Lancer GT.

 

Why a Mitsubishi Lancer GT?

After reading many technical specifications of different vehicles and watching many user review videos on YouTube, I came to the conclusion that the Mitsubishi Lancer GT is the car I want to own. I consider it to be the best, I don't know, I really like it. It's just that. That vehicle exerts a magnetism over me that makes me can't stop loving it. Maybe there are better cars, I don't know. I just know that I want a Lancer to be my first vehicle. I have no a more technical explanation than this.

 

Why 2012?

Well, what a great year! (Was it a great year?) It is a year in my life that I will never forget. In 2012 there were many changes in many areas of my life, in the work area, in the romantic area, in the social area. Practically in all the areas of my life. Several unexpected situations that somehow were unmanageable or maybe they were manageable situations, but at that time I didn't have the skill or the experience to escape from situations like that. Therefore, I made decisions and took actions that brought changes. Changes that triggered the biggest change... the psychological change. I could say that that year forced me to "grow up", maybe because of that state of forced maturation I started to care about things that I didn't care about before, for example, I started to care about people, animals and the world and I started to do things to help them and try to improve them working as a volunteer. As I was doing various volunteer activities, my brain would ask me: what are you doing? I didn't know what to answer to that question. My heart just knew it was good to help others... I am still helping today ... as Mahatma Gandhi said, I felt that the best way to find myself was to lose myself in service to others... The man I am today was forged in 2012. It was definitely a great year and I want to pay tribute to it and always remember it with a vehicle from that era.

 

Like most of you reading this, I am a full time employee, 44 hours a week... most of my wage money is spent on apartment rent, food and basic needs, and inevitably another little part is donated to the community aid institutions in my city, and I help with a small fee for the maintenance of the facilities and equipment of the volunteer firemen in my city. I am not complain at all, on the contrary, I sleep peacefully at nights knowing that I have done something for someone who may never know it was me and may never be able to pay me back... Besides my job, I also spend my time trying to motivate and inspire people to identify their potential to continue and share the mission of serving others and I try to induce them to self-education, trying every day to teach them something new that will be useful to themselves or other people... something similar to preaching the gospel... anyway, I can't find a better phrase than this one from Buddha to define my lifestyle: "with one candle you can light thousands of candles, and the life of the candle will not be shortened"... that's why I do what I do.

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It is kind of sad to me that the Universe did not endow me with extraordinary abilities to be able to generate money with trending or with investments or that I was not given the magic touch to create an overnight fortune... either way I am very grateful for the physical and mental health that I was given, and for the possibility of having a slightly well-paying job to make ends meet... it is a minimum wage job. The minimum wage in this country is not one of the best minimum wages in the world. That is why I am asking for your help in order to achieve one of my greatest illusions.

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You are probably thinking "if you have the possibility to earn a minimum wage stop making donations and start saving your money like any normal human being born on this planet would do"... Logically I know is not a bad idea do that, but unfortunately if my mathematical calculations are not wrong, it would take me 21 years to raise the money I am needing today to be able to buy the Mitsubishi Lancer GT that I am looking forward to buy. That amount of money could only be reached in that depressing lapse of time if several factors were combined and if certain conditions were kept unalterable, such as the same salary every month for 21 years and if I stopped making the donations I am making today, adding the unbreakable condition of never again making the slightest superfluous expenditure of the money left over after having made all the obligatory and indispensable monthly expenses. This formula would only be applicable in a fictional universe where all those mandatory and indispensable monthly expenses and the cost of living would cease to be inexorably modified every month due to the unstoppable and uncontrollable inflationary acceleration of this country.

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I know that all of you are already helping the world in your own way to a greater or lesser extent based on what your different capacities or possibilities allow you. On my own, it will be almost impossible to achieve my goal, but the cumulative impact of the littlest contribution you can make added to other thousands of little acts of giving will be greater than we can imagine.

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I hope you don't think my cause is not big or important enough to do something small to support it.

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Thank You for reading!