Following Old Instructions and How to Read Between the Lines
Just like how the old instruction from the experts goes: If you’re being kind of reckless, try shifting gears! But without a car, it would be ridiculous to take the saying in its literal sense. Of course, you can only shift gears when you’re driving your car, or a dilapidated but still able schoolbus, or dumptruck, or a fifth-hand van sold for nine hundred dollars; you can’t possibly do so without them. That’s why the capacity of understanding statements according to what it says in its figurative condition would prove very, very essential.
Of course, the essential figure we’re talking about is the dollar sign. Since logic has allowed us to infer that shifting gears is impossible without a vehicle, then a substitute that would count as a vehicle despite of its nature being, in truth, a non-vehicle, would prove vital for the affirmation of the saying as one that is not merely wordplay but in fact, grounded in real situations and therefore has the capacity to invite people to relate to it.
And this is of course something we can acquire with the essential figure. But mind you, it’s not because it’s sterling silver cufflinks. For what is the metaphor for if the only consideration of understanding it is to treat it as ornaments? Automotive cufflinks are especially made to fit the mood and to accompany the metaphor. Among the line of automotive cufflinks are Gear Shifter Button Cufflinks which would remind a person to follow that old advice to switch away from being reckless to be swayed towards a direction leading to commitment, passion and idealism.