My Driving Experience Analysis

Getting my driver’s license was an experience. I studied day and night for my permit and aced the test. My parents, especially my mother, gave some much needed advice not only for my own personal driving skills but, also, helped me to realize that other people were going to give me valuable lessons. I had an amiable but stern driving instructor from Mavericks Driving Academy. This man had patience and a different perspective on learning how to drive then my mother. My self confidence was running high because I passed everything I needed through the driving academy to go and get my driver’s license! I was nervous on my first try. I now had to prove myself to one more person I was road worthy. I failed! I blamed the driving inspector. I had to wait two weeks to try again…patience.. I practiced, practiced, and practiced some more. I failed again! Now here I was blaming the driving inspector, my mother, and the driving instructor. Quickly, my confidence was diminishing. Why couldn’t they just see all that I could do? I decided I would not be so quick to rush to the DMV a third time. I struggled emotionally with my second failure. I knew after I slammed the bedroom door and cried myself to sleep, that I would have to reflect and regroup all that was taught to me. My mother, who wanted me to endlessly practice backing up and “be careful!”, my driving instructor emphasizing the importance of allowing extra time to get from one place to another safely, and all the do’s and don’ts of the road. The DMV driving instructors putting in perspective, not by words but by actions, the importance of their job. That I would get my license through worthiness, not because I had places to go and a new freedom to enjoy. From these failed attempts …show more content…
I will continue to be a student and a teacher through words and actions, so that I may become a better person, citizen, and hopefully an inspiration to never give up on the end