The day you give someone a Lexus is just the first moment of realization that you inhabit a level of financial success that some might see as garish, but that others aspire to reach. The moment that you give someone a Lexus, you’ll experience a brief sense of vertigo as you realize that your life has turned out in such a way that you’ll probably never have to bag your own groceries, or look in a kitchen drawer for a pizza coupon, or postpone a haircut.

You may also realize, as you’re handing someone the keys to a brand new Lexus, that the major problems in your life are now likely to be centered around your emotions and personal relationships, rather than cruel financial decisions over what to sacrifices to make in order to provide for yourself and your family.

The moment you give someone a Lexus is one in which you can finally feel the comfort and security that wealth imparts on its owners. It is the sensation of crossing a mighty threshold into a warmer, cleaner world. It’s the feeling of crossing home plate.

It’s a feeling where you start to think the only threat you really have to worry about is that you might come down with some kind of obscure disease, like what a concert pianist might get on that show House, and nobody will realize it time to save you, because it’s so rare.

The moment it occurs to you that, holy shit—I’m buying, and then giving away a brand new luxury automobile, is just the first moment where you finally begin to feel the kind of confidence and complacency that can only belong to the very comfortably well-off, who use the fruits of their success to aggrandize themselves by giving expensive presents to their loved ones. Or, maybe you’re just really bad with money.

Why not give yourself the gift of giving someone a Lexus for Christmas this year?