How to "drive" life?

Today I received my learner's driving licence, not a big deal because it was not the real driving test. For the last couple of days, I am learning to drive. During every moment of the lesson, I am feeling that the philosophy behind driving is the same as that of "living a life". Here I have gathered a few situations..  

1. Sometimes, pushing the break is most important to avoid harming self and others, even before starting. Pause for a moment, take a deep breath, and then "GO", embrace your path/life. 

2. If you want to move ahead, do not want to stay in the same position, acceleration is your task. But definitely, with caution, like seeing both sides and the rear-view mirror, you need to analyse your surrounding situation before taking the leap.

3. Sometimes, moving with first gear is very necessary, where moving is the agenda. Do not pause, move slowly, observe the surrounding and decide your next venture.

4. But if you decide to drive the whole road in first gear, your energy tanker might become empty before reaching the destination, hence you never reach it in time. Thus, the gear change is the necessary step to reach in time unless you want to change track.

5. You must refuel, how will you move the next day if you are not charged? Your engine won't start. 

6. When someone is on a busy road and wants to move ahead, they need to overtake and make their own way, no one (mostly) gives you the way willingly. In life too, we need to be opportunistic to move forward, however, with caution.

7. Sometimes on the road, a very critical situation appears and one barely avoids an accident, but if you are on a highway, you can not just stop to take a breath, you need to move along.  The same happens in life, sometimes we somehow managed to get past a critical challenge, and we get tired, but at that very moment, we can not take a break.

8. Also, if any mishap happens on the road, we need to learn a lesson from that, so that the same unpleasant situation does not appear in future, but we also should not brew on that misfortune incident. If we keep brewing it, that will ruin the peace of our mind and will only become worse in your next drive.

Same in life, we shall learn a lesson from our past, forgive ourselves/others and move forward.

9. On a long drive, we must take a break, but that shall be a quick one. If we take a long pause, we will never reach the destination on time. And this very one is much needed in my daily life. Most of my quick coffee break becomes Netflix break, and at the end of the day, I panic about not completing the task.

10. Nowadays, if you do a simple Google search "mindfulness", you will get millions of articles and videos on it. Life coaches are also saying to be attentive and to be in the present. Driving is exactly that, being in present, and being attentive, or else you will meet accidents. Keep calm, and move on! ☺

Do you find any similarities between "life" and "drive"? Let me know your thoughts. 

Safe drive, save lives!!