According to Jordan Cooper, your mind is in remarkable shape if you are more than 65 and can still remember these 12 events in your life.
We are now in # 2: THE DAY YOU LEARNED TO DRIVE
“Parallel parking on a hill. White knuckles. The instructor with the peppermint breath.
Vivid recall here blends motor memory with context: the route you took, the song on the radio, the one instruction you still hear when you back up (“turn the wheel toward the curb”). If those details snap into place when asked, it’s a quiet sign your brain tags emotional learning and keeps it accessible.”
I will never forget my first driving lesson. I was only 10 then.
Tatay and I were waiting for Nanay in the car for our Sunday Mass. Out of the blue, Tatay instructed me to sit in front and watch him turn on the ignition. Then we switched places. When I successfully turned on the ignition, he showed me how to manually back up. Our house was located at the farthest end of a 750-sq m. lot so our perimeter gate was about 400 m from our garage. While some people are finding it hard to back up, it became my forte for obvious reason.
The radio was not on because Tatay was giving me a lecture on basic driving course. Besides, even if the radio was on, it would be inaudible because of Tatay’s loud voice which became even louder when I almost hit our still closed gate and he shouted “BRAKE!”. Thank God I did not panic and hit the brake in the nick of time.
57 years ago, I survived my first driving lesson.
