Reverse parking. One step higher.

I would do anything to avoid reverse parking.

When reversing, I felt that I lost control of the car. The movements of the wheel and the directions of the back of the car didn’t stick in my head. I would find myself in the middle of the parking lines, going back and forth looking like an idiot and embarrassed when people watched.

I feared looking like a fool. With this level of skill I also feared hitting another car, and easily talked myself out of practicing. When people asked me why I never reverse park, I simply told them that I couldn’t and soon accepted this story. When creating my fear stairway I realize that the reason is not because I couldn’t but I was to scared to try.

It was time to put this fear to rest, if my friends and family could reverse park with ease so could I. All I needed was to know how and practice.

That’s just what I did. Found a random YouTube video (attached above), took notes and practiced. Ofcourse started of with no cars around as I didn’t want to actually cause a crash. To avoid looking like a fool I practiced early in the morning, in an area with few people.

Once I felt myself getting better at staying within the lines and the general estimation, I tried reversing parking next to cars. Its now safe to say that if I really needed to I am able to reverse park between cars🎉

My take away.

Fear is an emotion, instead of blindly accepting it, lets try to understand it. Understand where it came from and it is really something that should be feared? Make your own choice as you might miss out on discovering something new about yourself, such as a skill you never thought you had.