Does She Dare To Learn To Drive And Go For Her Driver's License Again?

Submitted into Contest #54 in response to: Write a story about someone struggling to learn a skill that in no way comes naturally to them.... view prompt

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Resilience is the realm to freedom and fortune. Failure might be inevitable, but not everlasting. The girl who feels nauseous at the thought of getting behind the wheel fear has stricken her and she must try again.


Take more driver assessment lessons, be attentive to the instructor's critiques, practice with parental consent, and listen to the overbearing complaint of a parent who wants to take control of the wheel themselves. The inadequate emotions of going for your exam again unlike your peers, friends, or family you are faced with that fact. Diligence and the ability to not give up has to be everything.


The palpitations of putting yourself out there to try again arise. The fear of remembering all the terms after your attempts, but not letting that get to you is all you need to know.


So at first you procrastinate. You let your permit expire. It seems like the end of the world, but actually it is only the quiver of fear crossing your mind.


A new day begins and you try again. You reschedule with the local registry. You pass the permit with no surprise to anyone, but yourself, and you go for those extra road lessons at a phenomenal driving school that does not just go with the average twelve lessons, and wants you to continue to attend until you meet their expectations, and they think you are ready for the test. It might have took over twelve lessons, but the day of you re-attempt your road test has arrived and you are ready.


It takes ten minutes tops, but you showed the examiner what you were capable of and it took more than one attempt, but that my dear would be what "second chances" are for.


It might seem peculiar, but there is no "norm". That is the harsh thing about teenage years we are all in a competition to out do one another, but are uncomfortable to be able to conform, and be sure of ourselves. The trend is pass at 16 1/2 in Mass, but that does not mean if one does not meet that standard they are inadequate.


The pressure to be perfect is self destructive and no where near healthy. You actually win when you take a chance. When fear does not overpower your life. When fear controls you, you have no way to go up, but rather you are on the eternal rollercoaster of despair.


Give yourself a second chance, forgive, do not discredit yourself, or down your worth because you did not pass. The best power one has would be to carry on and start over. As long as you resort to not make something a learning experience that is when you then lose.


Do you know why you actually won? The shallow self and ego say you only won if you got a reward, but sometimes the lesson overpowers the prestige. Your capability has no limits, unless you are unable to see the beauty in the learning experience.


The one thing to take from this if you are not proud of yourself and the strength it takes to try again no one will see your worth and it does not matter if you resort to only if someone else has because the fact you never gave up means more than a million dollars. Being able to give yourself a second chance takes a lot of love and integrity. If you pity yourself, belittle yourself with insecurity, doubt, fear, and ridicule you have lost a battle you thought you may some day win. Who cares if you are over 18 when it finally happens for you? Life as an adult never has been the same horrid race or competition one endures in high school to make the best marks, say the best thoughts, get the most recognition, exceed, and pass the most assessments. You define your own worth and that would be when one discovers self actualization. Until then you have lost and do not see the beauty of the drive it took across the road to win the seemingly never ending agony of not being able to know when you would pass. It always seems unfortunate when you can not learn from your mistakes and blossom into a beautiful transition. You will forever be haunted by the broken record of thoughts of fear and failure. That would be the true never ending battle you face, but when you go back and excell that would be when you are the authentic "winner". Sometimes when you think you won you lost and when you lost you won.


Being able to rationalize the technique of learning the rules of the road and going for the exam are everything. It reinforces what you once learned. Repetition might just be the way to win for you, and that would be what makes you you, and rather really interesting compared to the traditional learner. Your learning style may vary from one type of learner to another, but that makes you you, and that would be the way you attain your well deserved success.


You might learn the basic way, you may need numerous lessons, and you might have to reinforce what you learned until it sinks in. Either way you showed your strength and that deserve that license you dreamt about, since the day you were eligible to start to learn how to drive, be able to understand the rules of the road, and finally move on to be able to attain that privilege to drive on your own. Either way you got there. You did it! Be proud of the journey. Do not beat yourself up because you were not perfect. Instead allow yourself a "second chance" that you well deserve. Despite that you may at once chose to resist and even think you could reconsider to try once more. Regardless the adverse event that turns out to be the outcome you must realize yourself you took the risk. You as a result rose to victory.



August 13, 2020 02:11

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