Working with a Fully-Developed Brain

For days I waited with high anxiety for the consequences of my bad judgment to catch up with me, but it never did. My parents acted as if nothing had happened; not a word was mentioned.  Charlie and his parents never contacted me or my family; the police didn't surround the house demanding that I surrender and come out with my hands in the air. Weeks passed, then months.  This really big thing passed with no serious life-altering bad consequences. Hopefully, I had learned my lesson from this close call, and now all decisions going forward would be well-thought-out and logical.

WRONG!

Let me put it this way. If you got in your car, turned the key in the ignition, and put the gear into drive, would you go anywhere if you were missing a steering wheel? You would answer, "Of course not; No one can drive a car without a steering wheel. It's the directional component of the car." And I would expect that answer from you because everyone knows how incredibly smart you are and how you always have all the right answers to all the questions. You're obviously working with a fully-developedl brain. But you're wrong. You can drive a car without a steering wheel. Just because that directional detail is missing, it doesn't mean you're stranded by the side of the curb. You may not be able to guide said above-mentioned car very well, but you can still drive it. Every teenager knows that.