Greetings!
There are wishes in life and if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. Meaning, wishing for something is not enough, but taking action is of utmost importance to making the wishes a dream come through and this is a one way thing which means, action speaks louder than wishes, and for anyone to achieve his or her goal in life, he or she must pursue his wishes and make it manifest through his or her action.
Going by my wishes, one thing I would have love to do in my life but that I don't know how to do or go about it is "DRIVING." Whenever I see people driving their cars or vehicles on the road and even in the street, I used to be ashamed of myself and the reason being that, even those people that are younger than me, drives. It's really a serious matter. Whenever I see most of my friends driving, I used to be jealous of them all. This is because most of my friends can drive. Most of them didn't even learn it, but just know how to drive by picking up their dad's car key whenever he's not around and tried their luck. There's even a friend of mine, Tunde by name. This guy lived in this same neighborhood with me
So, in those days, whenever his dad was not around, he would picked up the father's car key and try his driving skill, atimes, he called on me to come and have a part in his illegal drive, which I wouldn't hesitate to jump into the car and enjoy myself having fun while Tunde was driving. There's a day he asked me to try my luck and drive, he gave me the key and instructed me on the next move. The car was a manual car, so, he instructed me to put my left leg on the clutch which I did successfully, he also told me to put my right leg on the throttle which I also did, but after this, instead of me releasing my leg on the clutch little by little, I didn't do so, but instead press the throttle so hard, with my leg on still on the clutch. But while doing this, he didn't shout on me, but gave me a thumb up and asked me to release my leg on the throttle, to me, I thought he was still instructing me, not knowing that, he was trying to save us both from an impending calamity. So, as I released my right leg from the throttle, Tunde asked me to come down which I did and he was like, you're not serious Samson, don't you know that's not how to drive. He collected the car key from me and drove back home so that his father would not know what he has done. Thank God, I didn't use the car to hit the Mama Ikenna shop on that fateful day.
So, since then, I have not had the kind of a golden opportunity given to me by my good old friend Tunde, though I have at some other quarters tried my luck but all to no avail, as till now, I can still drive. There's was a day I and a friend traveled to his village with his car, so, we kept a night as we couldn't sleep throughout the night just because of the event we went to grace and the unfortunate thing was that, we have to leave the place very early in the morning for another event that we must attend, though at his own event, I was able to have a nap, but he was not.
So, the first thing the following morning, we left for Ibadan from osogbo, but while on the way, that my friend, Femi by name was feeling sleepy and could not drive with his eyes so heavy with sleep, he was even dosing on the wheel, but I kept on encouraging him, but it got to a time that we nearly had an accident if not for the timely intervention of myself who was not feeling sleepy. My friend got angry at me as he was like what's even your own usefulness as you cannot drive. That word touched me to my marrow that day. Though we waited for some minutes for him to take a nap and rest, before we proceeded on our journey which really wasted our time and we got to the other function behind schedule and our getting late attracted to us fine. So, after that incident, I still tried my luck but yet, the same story.
So, on a particular day, I was wondering why all my friends can drive and I cannot drive, to me, I was of the opinion that, maybe it's as a result of my dad not having a car, but I later realized it's not as a opportunity was presented to me by a friend which I painfully missed. One thing I now later got to know about the whole issue was that, I didn't know how to drive just because of a four letters word which can steal, kill and destroy, and that word is "FEAR." The word fear has really affected me and I could vividly remember when we were very young back then. Back then, my friends used to rent bicycles to ride, and I will be looking at them falling off the bicycle and blood gushing out of their body, so, as a result of the fall and blood gushing out of their body, I was always gripped with fear and decided not to even give cycling a chance and that till today has really affected me. So, fear has really caused me my driving.
All what I have said so far were not even the main issue now. The main issue now is that I applied for a job and this job requires driving skills which I have tried times without number but all to no avail and even, there's are many applicants for the said job. What do I do? I don't know, but I have decided to make up my mind and try to learn it again, but this time around, it's by false that I must know how to drive. I must not miss that job opportunity. No wonder there's a saying that says. "Let preparation meet opportunity." See me now, but on this, I will be prepared so that I will meet up with the next opportunity of securing the job.
This is my entry to the #neoxianprompts
Thanks for reading.
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