Now that I am a decently accomplished driver, every once in a while I get to reflecting upon my early stages of motor vehicular handling. Boy was I mess. But over time and practice and a few mistakes, I’ve gotten to a point I never thought I would.
That said, I can’t help but reflect upon one day in the “circles around the neighborhood” stage of my driver’s education. I was learning in family Ford Expedition at the time. It was not a fun season of learning. This SUV was much too large for me to handle as a first-time driver with extreme anxiety and second-guessing issues. Now that I have my little Jeep that is so wonderful words can’t express it thoroughly, I can only look back on those first attempts with a gentle sigh as a laugh slips away.
Anyways, I remember it was a sunny Sunday afternoon when I piled into the driver’s seat with dad across from me in the passenger seat. I was the penultimate teenage nervous wreck. Laughing a little when wondering if that moment was a good time to stick the keys in the ignition. I vaguely remember stalling for a few seconds before I leaned just a little bit forward. As I did so, one of the lenses in my glasses completely fell out of the frame. Just plop. Out onto the cup holders like something straight out of a cartoon. I looked up at my dad about to burst out laughing while feeling like some one-eyed pirate. Thankfully, I had a backup pair of glasses to wear while my original frames were being repaired. But needless to say, I had a good laugh that day. I still do every time I think about it. I don’t know if it was how the lenses just randomly collapsed. Or maybe it was how awkward the aftermath felt. Either way, it was hilarious.
That being said, I’m not sure everyone would have had the same reaction that I had. I looked ridiculous. I felt ridiculous! Did I cry about it? Did I worry that my dad would think I was some kind of dork? No! In fact, I’m kind of glad it happened. Immediately, it lightened the mood of what was not my favorite activity at the time. Sure, I may have thought, “Yay! My glasses broke! I don’t have to drive today!” But I didn’t shrink away. I still did whatever loops around the neighborhood I was doing back then.
So what things in your life have you had a bad knee-jerk reaction to? Have the proverbial lenses of the glasses of your life taken a complete nose-dive into your metaphorical cup holders? Remember: How you react to the situation can make all the difference in the world with how you overcome the obstacle.
Some things are heart-breaking and require a season of grief. Other things call for simply a laugh to lighten the load. Because in all honesty, some things we get upset about are really hilarious. Sure they make us look odd sometimes. But most of the time we look back on that thing years later and laugh. So as a general rule…if you think you’ll look back on this moment with laughter in five years, why don’t you start laughing about it right now? After all, it’ll help ease the pain even just a little bit and help you to perhaps see a new perspective you never saw before.
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