My Helpful Car Accident Essay

When I was a child, I went through a lot of different events, among those events I had an incident that would never be forgotten. After that event had happened to me, I did learn a lesson from it and it has helped me a lot in making various decisions in my life. It also has taught me how to deal with life's problems that we all face. This story started when I was fifteen years old. It happened in my home country which is Saudi Arabia. The beginning of the story was that, I used to love cars and I was a little bit more interested in driving them than other children were at that time. I was enjoying learning a lot of information about cars and listening to people while they were talking about them. Absolutely, I was addicted to cars and driving.
After a while, I decided to tell my father to give me an opportunity and let me drive. I started telling my father almost every single day that I wanted to drive. In the beginning, he totally disagreed with that idea, but I kept convincing him that I was able to drive at that age until I could see that in his face he would let me drive soon. Two days later, when we were in the car going home, he said he would take me to an area where there were no cars and let me do what I had dreamed of for a long time, which was driving a car. The next day, as my father promised me we went far away from our city. He stopped the car and looked at me, and then he said "now you can drive." After that, he began teaching me how to drive step by step. No one can imagine how happy I was while driving. We spent about forty five minutes over there. It was one of the most amazing times that I have ever had. While we were coming back home, my father told me he would let me drive once a week. It was a surprise for me to drive every week.
A few months later, my father traveled with his friends as usual. He usually travels to other countries just for visiting. Without any planning, I walked into my parents' room. My family was sitting in there talking to each other about different things. I suddenly saw my father's car key was on the table. I immediately thought about stealing it. I said to myself it was a chance and I should take advantage of. I waited in the room where we were sitting until everybody left. Then, I calmly took the car key and put it in my pocket without letting anyone know what I was doing. I stayed home for several minutes to ensure that everything was going well. After that I got out of my house with my small pillow which I put on the seat so I could see the street clearly.
I started driving the car and I felt everything was okay which was not. I drove for about six to seven minutes until I found myself between many cars. Since I was a little, I could not control the car in that situation, as a result, I had an accident. When I saw some cars gathered in front of me, I felt like I was panicked. All of the sudden, the car which was in front of my car stopped. I hit the break but it was too late. Then I hit the front car. However, it was a small accident, the other man and I did not get hurt, but the two cars had a little damage. Even though that accident was my mistake, the man whose car I hit, was very kind and generous. He let me go without paying him any amount of money.
Once I got home, I told my mother what I did, and she was really disappointed in me. I was scared by that time and told my mother that I would be punished if my father knew that, she responded "you should." Then my mother was really kind too, she understood the situation I was in. She helped me by calling her brother and giving him some money to fix the car. Several days later the car had successfully fixed and was parked exactly where it had been. A week or a little bit more my father came back from his travel. During the next two days he had been told about my story by my mother. He did not expect that from me at all. It was like a surprise for him, but he did not react as I thought he would. He talked to me and directed me to the right way by giving some advice. He informed me to be more responsible for all what I do and never making serious mistakes like that. I apologized to him and promised I would never do it again.
I have learned a perfect lesson from my mistake that I made. I put myself in danger, I could have killed myself or continued the rest of my life being disabled. That would have certainly prevented me from achieving some of my goals. After all of that, I have realized how dangerous it was to make a decision without thinking about what the consequences.
Because of the accident I learned to value my life even more. It was a life changing event for me that made me realize that I truly have one life and I must do my best in order to make good use of it. I also learned that I am not only responsible for myself but for other people as well. In reality it is difficult to make choices because there are a number of people to consider. I consider myself lucky that I got the chance to share my experience with other people, because it made me realize the value of being cautious and responsible. My would have been different if I got severely injured back then, but it I know that fate wanted something different for me, that is why I got spared. I can say that I am a better person because of the accident, although it was traumatic on my part, but at least it showed me the importance of manning up to my problems. There is no escape route in life. I need to make sure that I view my problem as my outlet for growth and development. My decision back then could have not only drastically changed, but the man that got caught in the accident with me. I realized that I put not only his life on the line but also his family, who could have been dependent to him.
I saw the valuable lesson of caring for other people, because in the end of the day we all belong in one environment. My decision will directly and indirectly affect other people. I know that because of that car incident I proved to myself that I can be better, even if it was a ‘dark’ part of my past, I considered it a blessing in disguise because without it I would not be who I am today.