Typically the things you take for granted are the things that work perfectly without a hitch. Whether it be the trusty frying pan that has never let you down, or the Toyota that has never ceased to get you from point A to B. It is easy to love these things that make our everyday lives so convenient, but then again, when everything works so well, it soon becomes your standard, your base, and after a while you will never really appreciate it until the day it’s no longer yours.

It’s funny how it works, but passion seems to work both ways. Whether you love it or hate it, as long as there is human involvement, human input, and more emotional involvement, there is more passion. Whether it be the frustrations you experience from working on a car engine to the joy you feel when it finally starts running, things that go wrong all the time seem to sprout up this funny thing called “passion.”

Watch enthusiasts are passionate people I would say. Any sane person would laugh at the idea of paying thousands more for a mechanical watch that is less accurate, more fussy, more demanding, and on the whole, hugely more impractical than their quartz counterparts. That’s why when it comes to watches like the Casio G-Shock, us watch enthusiasts, while we may love it for what it is, may not feel that kind of emotional attachment to it as we do with our mechanical pieces.

I’ll let you in on what the Casio G-Shock is. You probably already know it, but it’s a watch series that is renown to be able to withstand serious shocks, vibrations, go to great depths, be visible in the dark, and have any number of functions. In the watch community it is hugely respected as being the watch most enthusiasts would turn to if things got really hairy and they needed a watch they never ever had to think about it.

For an example of this perfection, take this Casio G-Shock Atomic Solar:

Casio Atomic Watch G-Shock Gray Color Solar Mens Digital MTG900DA-8V – Free Shipping

This watch is atomic which means that it can tune into the radio frequency of a clock that keeps perfect time and adjust its date and time accordingly.  It is able to withstand earthquakes, sandstorms, extreme dark, extreme depth, and on top of that it is solar powered so you never need to worry about a battery.  Besides that it knows the time in various parts of the world, has several alarms, and it is really cheap.

In a perfect world where everything makes sense and people think sensibly everyone would have one of these and everyone would be driving a Toyota Camry.  The reason why everyone doesn’t have one these, however, is that humans are creatures of passion and don’t want things to be perfect.  We sacrifice perfection to stand out from the crowd, and because we don’t want to be perfect in a world that’s not so bad.