I used to be driven, but I pulled over.

The line plays on the double meaning of “driven”: being propelled by ambition, pressure, or compulsion, and being literally behind the wheel. “I used to be driven” suggests a former life organized around urgency—achievement, productivity, or external expectations. “But I pulled over” reframes that momentum as a choice: the speaker stops, steps out of the rush, and claims agency over pace and direction. The humor of the driving metaphor sharpens the insight: recovery, maturity, or self-knowledge can look less like speeding ahead and more like deliberately pausing, reassessing, and refusing to be carried by forces that once dictated one’s life.