Is it really true that you can't lose something you didn't deserve, or work for, or even appreciate in the first place?
For the last two years I've been financing a car and really enjoyed being free to drive, to go where I wanted when I wanted. Paying for elective repairs, gas, insurance and the financing, overall it didn't mean anything to me.
What the appeal was, besides being able to drive, was that it felt like I was always in my car driving around. Putting 20 thousand miles on it, really discovering that car lust is in my veins, being in 3 cities in 60 hours practically without sleeping. I guess I just took it all for granted.
Even though I was doing all that while unemployed for over a year, it didn't seem like a burden. Not compared to the freedom of driving and not having to take the bus. I don't ask people for rides or anything like that and generally I go out of my way to give people rides when they need them just because I know how horrible it is to wait for and ride the bus.
In about a week I'll have to stop the financing for lack of insurance coverage which was cancelled over two weeks ago. So exactly two years of driving will come to an end, because I have no insurance coverage.
Next week is my last week to find civil liability coverage that will let me keep paying for the car without being able to drive it. I haven't even been driving it for a while since the first notice from my ex insurer that they were finally cancelling my coverage.
It is just weird to me that I never really considered that I was free from the bus, that I was driving. I was paying for it even while unemployed and in a few more years I'd actually own a car. Maybe because it wasn't going to work out that way and that no matter what I'd be on the bus when I really would need the car, like in a week so I can get out of town for the holidays.
Whatever. It isn't like I need to be driving since there is bus service and I have no other responsibilities... it was just nice while it lasted.
For the last two years I've been financing a car and really enjoyed being free to drive, to go where I wanted when I wanted. Paying for elective repairs, gas, insurance and the financing, overall it didn't mean anything to me.
What the appeal was, besides being able to drive, was that it felt like I was always in my car driving around. Putting 20 thousand miles on it, really discovering that car lust is in my veins, being in 3 cities in 60 hours practically without sleeping. I guess I just took it all for granted.
Even though I was doing all that while unemployed for over a year, it didn't seem like a burden. Not compared to the freedom of driving and not having to take the bus. I don't ask people for rides or anything like that and generally I go out of my way to give people rides when they need them just because I know how horrible it is to wait for and ride the bus.
In about a week I'll have to stop the financing for lack of insurance coverage which was cancelled over two weeks ago. So exactly two years of driving will come to an end, because I have no insurance coverage.
Next week is my last week to find civil liability coverage that will let me keep paying for the car without being able to drive it. I haven't even been driving it for a while since the first notice from my ex insurer that they were finally cancelling my coverage.
It is just weird to me that I never really considered that I was free from the bus, that I was driving. I was paying for it even while unemployed and in a few more years I'd actually own a car. Maybe because it wasn't going to work out that way and that no matter what I'd be on the bus when I really would need the car, like in a week so I can get out of town for the holidays.
Whatever. It isn't like I need to be driving since there is bus service and I have no other responsibilities... it was just nice while it lasted.