I have learned driving 3 years ago. That's the reason why I was able to buy my own car, a small automatic sedan. In my trips to and from the office, I always notice that I feel slightly better when I am the one driving instead of my husband who sometimes picks me up from the office. That discovery of sorts made me conclude that driving can ease the stress in my body. There are times that I would drive the car to nowhere especially when there is light traffic on the road. I just go on as if to cast away my worries to the wind. After half an hour of driving, I would come home feeling refreshed. It is now like a therapy to me to go on a joyride once in a while.
Driving imposes responsibilities which must be carefully exercised as to extent and value, these are imponderable quantities which change minute by minute during driving. Making good and appropriate decisions while driving forms supportive values within the driver's mind: I did the right things at the right times, I feel good about that, I have surfaced on top of the "heap". If you drove in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, or most very large cities, your abilities mentioned above would be taxed to their limits. However, if you were to drive in Italy your sense of safety and esteem based on your driving habits, would be challenged to the very extreme of their limits!
@Corie Henson That's good Corie - not the same over here, we haven't got wide open spaces to explore anymore Its stressful driving around here
I don't like to drive anymore, maybe because I've been doing it since I was 16. I did enjoy it back then, that feeling is gone. My drive to my daughters is almost 3 hours and it's a varied drive and I don't like any of it. There are long open stretches that make want to close my eyes, then there's the windy, mountainous Pacheco Pass and truck filled hwy 99. In the 13 years I've been doing that drive I've gotten one huge speeding ticket and that was the only blemish on 49 years of driving. I was going 83 mph in a 65 mph zone. That was on that long boring stretch and it cost me $385 and a Saturday in traffic school so it wouldn't go on my record.
I still love to drive. I like driving fast with the radio playing loudly it is a sort of therapy. I go out on my days off and just pick a direction. It's more fun if there is some one to go with but I go by my self quite often.