THE COMFORT OF CRUISE CONTROL
- Alper Apaydın
- Mar 2
- 1 min read
When someone asks, "Are you sure?", do you feel the need to prove it?
Do you jump to defend yourself, to justify your choices?
If so, take a step back.
Before you react, pause. Ask yourself again—from a different angle. Be honest.
Are you afraid of failing? Of making a mistake? Of being judged?
Don’t be.
Because facing this question with honesty might help you catch something you’ve overlooked. Maybe a flaw, maybe a blind spot—something you still have time to fix.
Think about driving a car. Cruise control makes things easier, smoother. Engineers have tested it thousands of times. It's designed for comfort and safety.
But life?
Life’s cruise control has never been tested.
Growth, progress, and dreams don’t happen inside the comfort of automatic settings. If we always chose the safest, most predictable paths, we’d never truly choose at all.
In life, you don’t get a return policy. You don’t get to say, “I don’t like this choice, I’ll exchange it for another.”
Sometimes, we need more time to see things clearly. Sometimes, we need to make mistakes just to learn from them.
There is no rehearsal for life.
No matter what you choose, own it.
Are you willing to take full responsibility for your choices, even the uncertain ones?

