This week’s concept is “Bold”.

You more of a story with this one. See, I only got my license this past November. When I was a teen I wasn’t as thrilled about it, because I wasn’t going to have my own car and it’s not like I had many places to go. Then when I moved out we didn’t even have a car. Then when we did it was a challenge to keep one running. We had a string of cars that broke down, or just had something major wrong with them, like no seat belts.

But last spring, fed up with it all we got a loan, and a newish used Kia. So this fall both kids entered school and we had a nice car with plenty of insurance. It was only natural that it was time for me to drive. Only, I was terrified. Driving was overwhelming an I am not a person of great confidence (I can sometimes fake it well though). So part of it wasn’t just learning to drive, but learning that I could depend on myself to do so.

Last month I went to a workshop and I had to drive on the express way by myself for the first time. In rush hour. It was majorly intimidating. In fact, and I’m not exaggerating or anything, I teared up and shook for most of the trip. Of course, it wasn’t really that bad (traffic and traffic manners I mean). On the way home four people cut me off without turn signals and three rode my tail along most of the highway, despite that I was edging over the speed limit. And by the next day when I had to do it again, I was fine.

So the moral is that Bold, for me, isn’t fearlessness. It’s doing what you have to despite being terrified. So for my Popinjay today I took a picture of the driver’s view out of our car, which really is my car now too.