Take a Pledge, Don’t Text and Drive – Essay

- By Anamika Mishra

Over 100,000 people are killed or injured each year in accidents because of texting and driving. That’s why, take a pledge, don’t text and drive. We have come to the time period where the social world status matters the most to us. We prefer meeting and communicating with people virtually than in real. Our entire world is settled in our phones only. It’s like all day we are only looking at our mobile. The screen time of people has increased so much lately. And that’s one of the reasons why we are addicted to using phones while driving also. We cannot stay without checking our inbox or mails even for one hour. Yes, addiction to phone is also wrong but at least it’s not as dangerous as texting while driving.

We need to stop risking our life’s and not only us but the ones we are travelling with and people who are driving safely around us. Texting while driving can take away our life or can risk our life badly.

What will happen if we text while driving?

This question is like unanswerable because this question will give all negative and scary thoughts only. But the answer is that it’s going to kill you or destroy your life completely and will hurt your loved ones as well. As mentioned earlier, it’s going to risk other people’s life too like people who are travelling with you or around you.

Why people text and drive? Can that be avoided?

It’s very simple to understand this, people prefer texting while driving either to save time or because they are addicted to texting someone. Yes, these things can be avoided completely if we know the consequences. If you receive an important call from someone you can park your vehicle aside for a while and talk but texting while driving is not fine. Our brain cannot multitask properly. We can and should to do only one thing at a time and if we prefer to drive, we should only do that. There will be a lot of distractions while texting and driving which is not right.

When we travel, we usually tend to go to a place to meet someone, and that someone must be waiting for us. If something happens to us because of our carelessness or addiction then that person who is waiting will definitely be broken for life.

Here are some ways in which you can stop this activity immediately:

Just think about your parents, who want you to reach home safely. Close your eyes and do this not for long, just for thirty seconds to one minute. That’s more than enough.
Just before you start driving you can look at your phone and reply back to all the important messages. This is the best way to avoid texting while driving saying it’s important.
You can also reach your destination and immediately check your phone and reply to important messages.

Take the pledge, don’t text and drive, because it’s unsafe, risky and wrong too. Make this as your habit in life which will be good for you.