So today, I completed my last two hours of driving lessons, thus achieving the closet thing to adult hood for me: my permit.
Upon entering my house, I ran straight to my computer, logged on facebook and made my new status in all caps: I GOT MY PERMIT
Some friends clicked the option of liking my new status, others shot a quick message of congratulations but one out of them all stood out.
One person said congrads but then went on the say how it wasn't a big deal and for them it lost its shine a week later. And also how unfair it was that their parents wouldn't let them go driving alone with a permit even though they are just so "fantastic."
I was really taken back by this.....rather rude comment.
How could they really put me down like this? When I have worked the right to be happy and joyous about it. I betcha no one put them down when they were jumping up and down when they first got their permit. Right?
In fact how dare they not let me have my time of celebration
Having a permit is a giant step in the direction of unlimited freedom
Their comment also made me realize just how spoiled they must be
they were complaining about driving with their parents?
How full of themselves can they be? I am thankful and just appreciative to be driving at all, and yes I doubt if they are a driving prodigy of which they claim to be.
Telling me that a permit is a stupid idea, and pointless and not that fabulous
is like telling a new mother that they must enjoy their kid while its young and sleeping because for the next 18 years all it will do is sleep, cry, and leech money off you.
like telling a new home owner that a house is not worth the effort, by the time you fix it up to the way you want it, you'll be old, have to sell it and move into a nursing home.
No matter if they are right or not, you just dont tell somebody that. It is something you have to let them figure out on their own.
"I was just warning you"
what a load of b.s. why in the world did you have to ruin this for me.
No matter if it's true and the shine of a permit eventually dulls down, it isn't true today for me, at this moment.
I could let this comment ruin the glory of a permit, but instead I'm going to let their comment ruin my precption of them.
