I have started reading again. It’s a book that was gifted to me by a couple of good friends and it’s titled ‘The God of Driving’. Authored by Amy Fine Collins, a columnist with Vanity Fair, it is a semi-autobiographical story of a New Yorker who has a phobia of driving. She proceeds from one driving instructor to another till she meets Attila, a Turkish man who teaches her to drive a stick-shift vehicle. Actually, he teaches her a lot more. Almost like a Guru, he guides through her innate and unspoken fears, in life, on the road and otherwise. Amazingly perceptive, Attila leads her gently to face the fact that there is nothing in life we cannot achieve if we really care about it enough. He teaches her to drive a car, a motorcycle, face her fears head-on and almost every lesson he imparts has its direct correlation to life.
‘Remember, Amy – scan into the distance, but then bring your vision back to where you started.’
Best piece of advice I have ever heard….:-)
Anonymous says:
I guess I should take to reading myself
You darned bloggers are making me change my ways!
i somehow could never get myself to read a whole book.. and you guys read, and relish.. DEEYAMN!
Kando.. I’ll read too, and i wont say it’s crap.. (lips curled inward – that’s how i resolve to do)
Good stuff you have there.. Cheers! 😀
http://toothlesswonder.blogspot.com
October 20, 2005 — 1:28 am
Lakshmi says:
Re: I guess I should take to reading myself
🙂
Malayalee?
http://www.livejournal.com/users/locks/91213.html should tell you how far I have come from reading myself!
Nice to make your acquaintance, Bal! Come by more often though I can’t promise new posts..:-) My writing skills seem to have frozen like they do once in a while!
October 20, 2005 — 9:13 am
aapka_apnaa says:
Reading a book
I started reading again too and that too 2 books at a time – “Dateless Diary” a travelogue by R K Narayan and “Iacocca” . and guess what started this – Mahesh left a lot of stuff at my place ( to be gotten rid of over this weekend) which also has a box full of books.
I liked the quote from your book. I hope I can borrow that book from you when you are done.
October 20, 2005 — 6:34 am
Lakshmi says:
Re: Reading a book
The book is in the trunk of our car. Bad place to keep a book, I know..:-)
Remind me to hand it to you next time we meet?
Btw, can I have some books from Mahesh’s stuff too?
October 20, 2005 — 9:14 am
aapka_apnaa says:
Re: Reading a book
sure – feel free to rummage the ruins the next time you come over to my home.
October 20, 2005 — 1:14 pm
bomboy says:
Wow!
Wow! Seems like an interesting book. Hope to lay my hand on it some time…
December 25, 2005 — 4:35 am
bomboy says:
Wow!
Wow! Seems like an interesting book. Hope to lay my hand on it some time…
December 25, 2005 — 4:35 am