Personal Narrative: My Fear Of Parallel Parking

Its arrived the summer of 2016, the summer I get my driver’s license. Getting my driver’s license was the material I desired to get, but I had one problem. I didn’t know how to parallel park. Emotions of devastation, nervousness, anxiety, and fear. A confusion of mixed emotions running through my body that it was hard to explain. The fear of parallel parking had in no circumstance struck my mind when I was in driving school the summer back. In my mind, such material was as easy to me and the image of doubt had not once crossed my mind. The Fall of 2015, my mother took her parallel parking portion of her driver’s test, when it was over she failed. My adrenaline was rushing as though I was on a rollercoaster. I thought if she failed the first time, I would to fail the …show more content…
My instinct urged me that I cannot do it. Taking a moment to reflect on the journey, I had overcome my fear of failure. Thinking of all the positive accomplishments I have made, in return of making the experience positive. While waiting I so happen to lose track of time until I hear the car door open and to hear the words “I want you to drive to the end of the street, reverse all the way back here, and do the parallel parking before we proceed onto the road test”. As I approach the parallel parking bay, I think to myself, it is best to get it over with rather than to drag it out any further. As I began to breathe, placing the car into reverse, and slowly backing into the bay. As I am backing up, I felt my anxiety taking the best of me. Continuing the procedures I had learnt at driver’s ed without a doubt, a sense of determination had crossed my mind. I began to focus on what my motive was because the outcomes were to give a good connotation afterwards. Once I placed the cark into park, the instructor says “Good distance, you have passed the parallel parking, we can now proceed to the road test”. What started out as a fear, later progressed into an