THE ULTIMATE 'SECOND DRIVER'.. MY 'CONFIDENCE' ITSELF!

As a Learner, when he sat in the driver’s seat of his prestigious brand new car for the first time with the experienced driver next to him giving his own piece of advice.. 

“Your car is fully automated. You should handle its operations as smooth as possible!”

• “Yes! Please  advise me on every mistake I do. Presently, I'm totally depending on you.. In fact, you alone are driving now indirectly!”

Were the instant words of surrender from him..

Soon on a day, when he was on road by himself as a Permanent License Holder with the friend by his side and suddenly the engine stopped on a up-hill slope with few trials of starting failing,

• “Please help me out. The up-coming route has few more slopes like this. I don't want to be held up in traffic!” 

Were the instant words of lack of confidence from him..

On a day, as he was dropping a garage driver home and the car had to pass through a narrow road with thick traffic around..

• “Do help me in this stretch. I ‘ll take the wider road when I return!” 

Were his instant words of request from him..

When the vehicle had to be parked on to the side of the road with too dense traffic on the road.. 

• "Sir! please get down.  I‘ll park the car for you!” 

Were the instant words of the savoir from the parking boy for him..

When the car had a small breakdown in a certain Parking Area and as the ‘Help’ arrived, rectified the problem and he was told that he could drive back home..

• “Oh! Again, if it stops on the road, I’ll have a hell of a problem. I don’t believe that it will not happen again. Please drive me back home for today!”

Were the instant words of fear of failure from him..

Soon many, many years rolled by and on a day when the spouse advised at a Shopping Mall,

'Go for valet parking.. They take off the burden of finding the parking spot, parking the vehicle, walking from there and all that trouble. More over, it's free.. And I feel you should employ a full time driver to drive our car and relax!” 

• “No! I may drive limited and may drive with more care because of my age but I don’t allow someone to take away driving from me. These young boys don’t know how to handle my vehicle and try to learn out of it as well as use it in a wrong way.. 

• Let me do all myself. Further having driven all these years, I ultimately know my car and none else would be knowing this vehicle better than me.. 

• I like driving my car, I'm proud of driving it and I continue to do till mine or my vehicle's eligibility to go on road ceases!” 

Were the instant words of the ultimate built-in confidence in him!

Keywords: DRIVER, CONFIDENCE