... before you reach it."
These wise words are very often given to me as advice from my dear friend Christine.
You see: I am impatient. I am a scheduler, I like to make plans. Worry about them.
Today I got a beautiful example for that vice: how often had I discussed with friends and family whether I should renew my one-year-season ticket for the German railroad - the special offer "BahnCard100" for pensioners and retirees.
I enjoyed its possibilities: with this ticket I can as often as I want take every train in Germany, on the spur of a moment, going as far in Germany as I want. For one year, "without paying" anymore.
The only fly in the ointment was the price: 3880 Euros (= 3.319 Pound Sterling) - a special offer for us oldies.
Quite a lot, I think. But I bought it. Although being at least 3 weeks a month together with the triplets so I had only one week a month - in which I travelled to Berlin, mostly, and sometimes to Munich.
Mid-September I have to renew this Card.
OR NOT.
As I said: I crossed that bridge often in my head.
Yesterday I saw: no need for that.
They do not offer this "special offer" anymore. (One can still buy the regular one - 2.class in the train - for 4.550 Euro. (3.894Pound Sterling)
No need to cross a bridge. I won't. I will buy the tickets I need, every time, and that's it.
Sigh... It was so comfortable... But...