Driving 101

My thoughts flow like hell whenever the time is in the boundary of night and day. It's easier to write in this particular time since I really really feel alert and rational. My laptop's always sleeps beside me on my bed. This is the best way for me to record my thoughts; for I believe, Obra Maetras are made in the realms of dreams and reality when you're about to sleep.

I tried to reflect on what happened today. Sembreak's killing me; everyting seems routinary and it bores me. Today seems to be different since my routine was broken. I finally started my driving lessons today. Yeah, after days of wait. I wasn't able to sleep enough the day before my driving lessons but I still attended my driving class.

Mang Carlos, my personal driver since I was Kinder, escorted me to the driving lessons. Daddy didn't allow me to come all by myself there. It's ironic, though, that I'd be learning how to drive and Mang Carlos' work would eventually decrease. Everything seems to be like this: Whenever I take a step forward, someone will take a step backwards.

My driving instructor was kind. I really learned all the basic things I need to know before I go FAST AND FURIOUS. My instructor said that I'm a fast learner, but I'm "makulit." =)) He showed me his manual and he said I have to read it all. He thought I would be shocked of its thickness and complexity. But oh NO, that driving manual was just a fraction of what I read in school. =))

Before I started really driving the car, he taught me the parts of the car. It was quite boring until we finally went to the engine configuration. Well, I easily learn mechanical stuffs at home and a car's build-up wouldn't be an exception. I really wanted to learn the detailed engine configuration of the car but my instructor said, "hija, driving lessons tayo...pang-mekaniko na yang tinatanong mo."

Like what I've said, I learned the basic driving skills and safety preacautions. I did some turns, stops, reverses, and manual steering techniques. I sensed Mang Carlos' anxiety, for he could see now that I was really learning how to drive. I finished all the lessons I needed to know for the day and I requested to proceed to the lessons for the next day. My instructor said that I shouldn't hurry the lessons even though I learned it all at once. I really have to be patient to truly learn. Indeed, when you hurry things too much...you learn less.

This would be the greatest lesson for today:

Accuracy doesn't measure real learning; it is how you manifest what you learned.

-S.Reyes