Life is like a highway.

Life is like a highway

Cars are a tool that we have been using for years, to work, to live, to have fun and to provide, they are like us in some way; and like a highway, life has ups and downs. Obstacles and straight roads, bumps and holes, but doesn’t mean we shouldn’t care for our wheels well-being.

Death and trouble is in every corner, but even so, we shouldn’t risk our and others lives just because it is close. We should learn how to care about our health and ways to stay safe, and one of the first steps to learn this—is with drivers ed. Because every accident that happens had a wheel that didn’t know how to control it.

When you learn about the risks, the dangers, and privileges of driving, you start appreciating and caring more about your and other drivers lifes. Because you open your eyes to things you might have never thought about, things like respecting the signs, red lights, and caring about others can save more lives than what you could imagine. Because caring is loving.

As winter is coming closer, more dangers come along with it. This is the season where more accidents can happen. Icy roads, snow storms and risky movements can cause endless problems if we don’t care enough about what we know, what we don’t know, and what we should know to keep ourselves and others safe. We have to prepare ourselves and our loved ones about the dangers and precautions of the road, and how to be, not the perfect driver, but a good person.

In my life, I always try to think that other drivers are going through the same thought process as me; they are scared, trying to get to their destination as safe as possible, and get to arrive healthy. But some members of my family don’t think the same. They want to arrive as soon as possible to their destinations without thinking of what the others around them could think. And like them, other drivers could have the same thought process, and that’s the real danger: the inability to care for others.

I feel that caring for life is a step we have to learn when we want to be safe on the streets. To learn how to care about others safety is a difficult road, but you always have to think: how would you like others to treat you? Do you want to be safe? Do you want to be healthy? Do you want to stay alive? Then do the same for others. Have the empathy for others just like you want others to have for you.

Another way to prepare ourselves for the road is to learn and research the laws and norms on the streets, because respect is a high value tool that can protect us from any legal or health dangers, and just like drivers education, its a tool that everyone should have, but that should come with love, respect and responsibility.

How do you want to arrive early to work if you cannot respect the red light? How do you want to go to this one restaurant if you go over the speed limit, putting in risk those who are walking on their sign? How do you want to get to school on time if you skip the stop signals?

How do you want to be respected, if you cannot do that for others?

Respect and love not only are feelings and skills we have to interact and communicate with others, but also, a set of tools that can protect your car from any accident that could appear without a word. To respect others is to respect yourself, and to love is to care about others.

We have to learn how to care and love life so we can be able to respect it, and that way, we can respect the roads and wheels of others. Just as we would like others would do for us and our loved ones.

To love is to care, to respect is to love and to care is to respect, and if you care about yourself, your friends, your family, then you have to start caring about the strangers that share road with you, as they also have their friends, families, goals, dreams and struggles, just as you and your wheels.

And like a highway; our life has many directions and paths, but not all have to end in danger and pain. But to arrive to our destination, safe and caring.