A spare. Nothing more, nothing less.

You’d definitely need a spare tire, unless you have those that run flat. Whenever one of the tires on your ride goes flat, you need this to help you get by. This helps you get to the nearest vulcanizing shop to have that flat tire repaired and reinstalled on your ride.

For most people, that is what a spare tire is. Nothing more than a quick fix to your woes. And as soon as the problem gets remedied, that spare tire goes back to where most car owners think it should be, in the trunk or the spare tire holder.

I can only imagine a spare tire’s frustration. Come to think about it, of all the wheels that come with your ride, this is the most overlooked. People would usually install their worn out tires in this and keep it tucked in. It is almost never cleaned, never properly taken care of. But this wheel and tire combo is the one that keeps the vehicle running well in the most difficult of times. If only the tires can speak, I bet It’d curse us the next time we pop the trunk open or look at them. We car owners can be really ungrateful about spare tires. Maybe because we’ve only seen them as what they are, spares. Something that you can pull out when the need arises; not something that is a part of your vehicle. No matter if the spare rim has the same design and specifications as the other four, (or in some vehicle more) wheels and tires, we never thought of them as a valuable part of our vehicle. We let them get beat up, dusty, and dirty. We put them on when we need them the most and we uninstall them as soon as the original wheels and tires are okay.

I guess feeling what a spare tire does has to be one of the most, if not the most painful experience one could have.  No matter how handy we are when somebody needs us, those people will never see us as more than a spare. We are only something that people use when they don’t have any option left. And after our dutiful service, we can never be real thing.

Doesn’t it suck?

That is why more and more carmakers equip their cars with doughnut tires that are narrower than the original. Why put a wheel and tire combo like the ones that our vehicles use when we would never ever use them are regular tires? It’s just a waste of valuable resources.

But is the spare tire really nothing more than an extra one? Couldn’t it ever be a real, hardcore wheel and tire that we can use?

Others may get worn out and feel terribly bad about being a spare. This happens to everyone and it is just a matter of time. There are some though who believe that they are needed, and won’t give up and stop being a spare. No matter how stupid it might sound like, these true-blue spares will not just give in. They’d do what they do best, be there in times of need, filling a temporary void that something left. A space that they’d never, ever fill up; just because they’re nothing, but a spare.

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This, ladies and gentlemen is my first attempt to write after two weeks of not composing anything “creative”. Heck, I haven’t even seen Microsoft Word’s interface for almost two and a half weeks now.  I have been writing since 2005; writing different stuff for differing purposes. After living, eating, and breathing by writing, I have just been through a two-week hiatus from something that I love doing the most. I have always been a writer (or pretended to be one). In my almost 7 years of having writing as a job, it is quite bothering that I have never mastered my craft. Yes, I have been probably improving but I am in no way good with what I do. I always believed that I was good, until ssomething came out and slammed my ego down the ground. Still, I believe that I am a great writer, only that I haven’t reached my full potential yet. I swear though, I will be back. And when I do, I promise to be a lot better than what I am now. Better than what people thought I was. I am just taking a breather. A break. I will be back. I will be. :D