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What do you love about driving? (Inspire me.)
At the end of August, I have my final road test to get my full driver's license.
I'm 33, and I've only started driving a few years ago, and even then, I've only driven sporadically, and for a few hours in total (probably less than 20).
I've been relatively apathetic about it. I think I even have a bit of a phobia. I have issues with multitasking and spatial awareness, so I get anxiety. I have to learn how to drive manual eventually, because my SO has a manual transmission Mazda3 Sport.
I don't know what it's like to use a car as a tool or as a device for pleasure, as a driver, as I've only been a passenger for most of my life. Most of my vehicular travel is by bus and subway at the moment, but I do occasionally get car rides on weekends here and there, and then there is the occasional road trip with about 2 or 3 hours in the car.
I have yet to experience highway driving at length. I am a bit nervous about city driving in cramped and congested areas (I live in Toronto).
Help me get over this.
What do you love about driving?
Why would you be devastated if you could never drive ever again?
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—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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