Someone or other says that you should do one thing that scares you every day. I do’nt think there are enough things that scare me for that to work, or at least not enough scary things that would actually be useful for me to do. I did one this morning, though, and I’ll do another one tonight. Rudder has off-site meetings downtown today and tomorrow, so this morning I drove all the way to work, and tonight I’ll drive home. Driving home will be harder, unfortunately: of course I’ll be tired; it will be dark by the time I can reasonably leave; and the route is a little more complicated. At least the GPS sees to be a bit more ccurate for most of hte route home. I don’t suppose it will be any problem, though. I’m just a little bit of a timid driver and not yet familiar with the area or inured to Taiwan traffic. There is one thing; I may not like being forced to drive in strange countries, but at least it leaves me hardened to traffic in my own. Last time I was in the US I drove all through NY city and Newark, around CT and through rural NY with no qualms.
My mother still refuses to drive on the highways of the city in which she’s lived her whole life. Her mother never did get a driver’s license; she only told my grandfather how to drive. I may be timid about Taipei traffic but at least we’re making progreas over the generations.
I remember saying, some forty years ago, that I was not going to be hampered in my life just because I was scared. That attitude lasted a long time, but I have found that, in the last couple of years, I am once again becoming more…hesitant. But driving is what it is, even if I probably drove more like your mother than like you. Did you read
http://l-empress.liscious.net/older/005539.html
back when I wrote it, maybe five years ago?