How has learning to drive changed you as a person?
I learned to drive later in life. Before this, I took the bus or walked everywhere. This meant carrying groceries and laundry on the bus or while walking. I also walked everywhere with music. I’m sure I was in better shape because of this.
Now that I drive, everything is so different! Life is more convenient because I can get a week’s worth of errands finished in a single day instead of choosing only 1 or 2 things to do.
Driving itself has given me more confidence because controlling a huge vehicle is a responsibility. Even dodging bad drivers on the road is a skill that gives me confidence because I keep everyone safe: them, me and others who may bump into me if they can’t stop in time.
Driving gave me a sense of freedom because I don’t have to wait for the bus to arrive or to start running. I can go wherever public transportation cannot go. This includes the countryside, little day trips out of town. Also a sense of safety if I go out at night. Once I’m in my car, I can see the city from the safety of my car. I usually would not travel that much after dark with so much safety. It’s a grand feeling. The city at night is beautiful. But I also see the people who don’t have places to live.
Driving has made my life more convenient. It has also made me more confident with a sense of freedom and safety.
How has driving changed your perspective? Do you drive for work, what has Chana’s a result of that? Did you learn as a teen or young adult? Or later in life?