When we talked about 'spare tyre', what is the first thing in your mind?
The proper definition: a spare tyre is to provide a replacement if one of the tyres on your vehicle is flat or damaged.
Many will say it is that extra tyre stored in the car boot behind that will come in useful when any one of your tyres got punctured. Simple as that. So we can see that this 'spare tyre' is all the while, hiding inside the car boot silently...... which no one will bother to pay attention to until they are in trouble.
To me, another anology of 'spare tyre' can be as follows: your ex-boyfriend, ex-lover, secret admirer or maybe good friend who is from the opposite sex. Let's say that when your relationship with your partner fails, u still have that 'spare tyre' to fall back to...... sort of like a buffer to catch u & prevent u from getting hurt. They can become very useful at these very trying times of our lives. But in reality, these 'spare tyres' also want to find their own happiness & hence, eventually they will not become YOUR 'spare tyre' anymore.
I got a friend who is already married, but one day she told me she is very sad cos her ex-boyfriend is getting married. I told her she should be happy for him, but instead, i can see that she is very sad. She said somehow she has LOSS something precious to her. I asked her is it that her 'spare tyre' is lost & in future, if her relationship with her hubby turns sour, she will have no one to talk to & a shoulder to cry on? She opened her eyes & nodded her head in total agreement & said "Yes! That's it. Now u have pointed it out".
Every one loves to have 'spare tyres' in their lives, the more the merrier. But at the end of the day, these tyres also wanna find their own happiness. So as reasonable human beings, we have to understand & learn to let go.
