What is so significant about a parking lot? Actually, nothing in particular unless you think of everything that can happen in this alienated place. A parking lot is not only a place for cars to temporarily stay until their owner's visit to their respective store of business is complete, but many other incidents such as fights, races, place for people to repair their cars, and many other happenings can occupy the space of one of these blacktop surfaces. The invention of the parking lot is to me the greatest creation since sliced bread. Both these are of tremendous significance and have so many uses yet they are so simple and elementary that one could not continue life without either of these. But parking lots do not even have to be black, the can have a wide variety of colors ranging from the traditional black, to semi-green grass color. But the actual idea of the parking lot and its many uses fascinates me.

The mainstream use for the parking lot is a place for people to temporarily park their cars in order to take care of business in their respective stores where they buy a variety of objects ranging from peanuts to cars. The color of the parking lot during the day is completely different from that during the night. During the day the parking lot is filled with people's personalities; each car reflecting them and their lifestyles. A rich person (or trying to look rich person) may have a Mercedes or Jaguar while a poor or conservative fellow may drive a cheaper looking car. This may reflect a person's personality because they may want to show off their cars. The color of the car in most cases defines the driver. If a person drives a red car they may want to look young and sporty while a person driving a white car may not want to be known for their car. These factors in turn give the parking lot a certain feeling to it. It's almost like an entity in itself because the lot has so many feelings and the cars reflect human feelings, whatever they may be. It also reflects another human characteristic, change. When a car drives away, another one will be more than happy to take its place. Now the parking lot has a new car with a new driver with a different personality. So indirectly, the parking lot is a reflection of the personalities of the people.

Besides using the parking lot to park their cars, people often like to fight, repair their cars, or race to show off their car's horsepower. Many times you see people who always want to fight outside. Hence the expression "wanna take this outside?" What they are referring to is usually the parking lot where many fights take place. But who knows, maybe these people are both good guys who just disagreed on something. This relates to the part of society that causes wars. One may also see an older man covered in tattoos wearing a black leather jacket with a long white beard repairing his Harley. This aspect of the parking lot shows how people must destroy and rebuild for the better sometimes, even though they may not think to highly of changing something completely. When people race, they show off their cars. In the real world, people show of their company's success by spending a lot of money or building a 100 story headquarters. This also pertains to pride because people hate to lose or lose at something, whether it be losing a your favorite compact disc or losing a championship in sports. The point of this is that people will always have conflicts and they will always disagree on something. I guarantee I could find two people that would argue on how to make a pie. The parking lot reflects these disagreements just not at a real-world level.

Anything goes here. Just like the world, you never know what to expect. With all the bad in the world, I'm surprised the world is as peaceful as it is. People will never be able to say that they have reached an all out peace in the world. There will always be an opinion of good, and opinion of evil. But this opinion of people is what keeps us all from peace. The parking lot shows how people agree and disagree on issues and how the world is constantly changing. These opinions are reflected on a smaller scale but the message is still the same. Even though people may not think of it, the parking lot is a mirror of society. People have many ideas that shape the world and society. People are aware of these ideas thoughts. Some ideas may help society, others may not. But the final product is astounding. If people could realize this, they would discover that people do change and are constantly changing, and that not everybody in the world will ever come to an agreement on a certain idea. The parking lot is like a brain, always knowing what goes in, but never knowing what will come out.

Blake Daniel Wood is fifteen years old. He makes his home in a town called Suwanee in north Georgia near Atlanta. He enjoys playing sports and any other type of physical activity. It never dawned on him that he was a writer until last year when he started doing much better in his writing.