"Breanne, if you EVER give up on ANYTHING that easily again..." --Nathan, last summer, in response to one of my many frustrations.

Decidedly, you can not drive a manual vehicle like you've been driving it for five years...on your third try. And maybe, if you're me, not even your fifteenth try. Some people weren't made to drive manual vehicles. Maybe I wasn't. And that's ok. I'll settle for the automatic, or at least the fact that I'll probably make a lot of mistakes driving stickshift for a long time. And that's ok, too.




Catch the life lesson there? It's a big one.