The Drive

Two months back, I had participated in the Toast Master Area Level Humorous speech contest which was held on 2nd October 2010 in my office campus.

What I learnt, it is really tough to make people laugh :)

Though I did not win any prize :-( but at least I have the satisfaction I gave tough competition ;-) At least I hope so :)

Well, so you read my speech and let me know, if it really made you smile/laugh(?). Please give in your comments. If reading is boring and you are a fan of YouTube, you can as well watch my video :)

Caution: It is entirely my wild imagination and original thoughts. But please don't come to any conclusion about my driving skills :)

The drive

Spirituality, Personality and communication classes are the latest trend. Anybody you ask, they are in something or the other. When you join these, you are welcomed, as though you have decided something big. ‘Congratulations to you for choosing the path of transformation’. Suddenly you feel, is something wrong here.

‘Have I come to the wrong place?’

Friends, why do you have to get into so many things, when you can learn every day from you own experiences.

Here I am, today, I am going to demonstrate to you, and how your personality development takes place by just driving a car. By the end of it, I am sure you will realize how it improves your communication skills, negotiating skills and of course some time the driving skill too.

Driving to my office in the car is a joyful ride.

The drive......

Some times the drive is bumpy, with so many pot holes on the road that you struggle to see that the car is not hit by the road. Obviously, coz we have paid so much, and how much more we have to shell out for the repairs. You learn being careful, careful about our things.

There are these days, when I am getting late to office, and I have to attend a meeting. Just in time, I cross the signal when it is about to go red. Wow.. what a sense of joy, and just turn back give an agony look to all vehicles who couldn’t cross it. Wow.. I did it again, a speedy drive. Here, you learn the timing and time management skills.

Then again, there are some days are relaxing, when the drive is like a tortoise due to traffic jam due to rain or felling of a tree. Do you get upset,  you are totally wrong, it is a boon in disguise,  this is the right time to show your multi talent. Just switch off your engines, switch on the FM channels and relax. You can enjoy the time with various FM Channels available who greet you with ‘Hello Bengaluru’, you can SMS and win some gift vouchers too. And you can even show your loved ones how much you care, by dedicating a song to them.

So what do you learn by this, You improve your confidence and learn to care.

But some days, are learning daysss… the days when we actually break the signals, and get caught by the cops. Then we horne our negotiating skills.

Some times, the drive is good times pass/ stress buster. How, just imagine you had a fight at your house/office, when you are driving the car, usually, we can get atleast one person who was about to hit us. Just stop your car and take out your entire bad mood onto that person, and you will be relieved. But don’t ask, what happened to the guy in the receiving end. :)

Now, you learn how to pass on the buck.

Sometimes the drive is a fear/helplessness, when a bus which is in the left most side of the road standing in the bus stop, suddenly starts and moves over right most side. So, what do we learn here, we learn  to be Thankful to God. which, in turn it improves our spirituality.

Then are these days, when we to go behind a tractor, and you cant overtake it. Oh no... it had to come now, I did a mistake taking this road, and we start comparing India with all the other developed countries, and finally say, it happens only in India. And decide that next time, I will not vote. So, we what do we learn here, we are enlightened about us being a citizen of India, hw important we are.

Sometimes the drive is little risky, when in front of us there is a truck without the back light. We suddenly, start thinking what will be the next move of the truck. Now, we learn planning and actually game planning.

Every drive you can always exhibit respect and love for animals. When you meet a cow or bull or herd of goats on the road, and carefully drive without disturbing them.

There are these lucky days, when it is little drizzling and your having a smooth drive, when suddenly the vehicle in front of you, breaks or halts. Then when you put a break and realize that the car is not stopping and the car stops just in nick of the time, when you thought the car has already hit it. Now, you remember your husband who said, you had to give it to the service last month. Thus, you realize the family value.

So, see friends, there are so many things that we learn from driving a car and improve personality. Mind you, these are just few of them, there are many more.

The important thing is that, we don’t even have shed any money. So what do you get as a bonus… learning to save money, of course. :)

Friends, Henceforth, instead of going to any personality/spirituality/communication development classes, just be chill, wear your seat belt and drive your car to your favorite or not so favorite destination depending on your mood. :)

Thank you.