What really needs fixing

I am at the car dealership and I am waiting for them to fix my brakes. You know it's time to get your brakes checked when those brake lights stay on when they are supposed to be off.

Simple.

Many other car owners are here. We are all responding to various signs and symptoms we see on our dashboards. Many of us have not even seen any symptoms of something going or gone wrong - we just know it's time to service the vehicle.

Wish our bodies were treated like this all the time. Guess we're more afraid that the vehicle may leave us on the road MORE than that we might leave both the vehicle and the road. How many symptoms have we neglected over the past year?

We see it on the "dashboard" of our bathroom scales every day - 20, 30, 50 lbs overweight, and more! We keep driving.

Bulging at the mid-section, clothes don't fit anymore even though we are not getting any taller - the mirror is a big dashboard that doesn't lie. Yet some of us ignore the warning signs all the time.

Why do some of us take more care of our cars than our bodies?