Reply To: A Journey I am just starting.

[Patte Rosebank]

I have so much trouble filtering information that I made the conscious decision that the world would be much safer if I wasn’t driving in it.

I made this decision after failing my driving test. (I made the tester scream, which is a pretty spectacular failure, I think.)

I replayed the test (and the many in-car lessons I’d had) in my mind, and quickly realized that I just couldn’t handle all that information coming at me so fast, from all directions. And that, if I missed something important, in less than a second, I could kill someone.

Driving is a privilege, not a right, and it requires tremendous responsibility. I wasn’t about to be selfish and insist on driving, when I knew that I lacked the cognitive ability that it requires.

Besides, I knew I’d move into the city.

Here, I’m within walking or public transit distance of nearly everywhere I want to go.  And I can take a lot of transit and cab rides, for the cost of owning a car in the city for just one year!

 

Rumination can be a good thing, provided you’re doing it from an analytical perspective, and you know how to learn from it, and to stop as soon as you’ve done that.  That’s how I’ve become self-aware.  I’m always asking WHY, and HOW I can build on that.

Kind of like being my own personal psychologist!

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