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My passport just expired, so it’s time for me to renew it. However, I am strangely hesitant to do so. For the last ten years, it shows precisely zero activity and looks like it’s brand new. I wouldn’t be surprised if it remains in the same pristine condition for the next ten years or more.
I debate with myself if it’s even worth paying a couple of hundred bucks worth of fees to renew the password immediately since I have absolutely no desire to travel and am perfectly content living in New York City in particular and the United States in general.
Waiting as long as possible will save me the amortized renewal fee, approaching the price of the full renewal as the time since last renewal approaches 10 years, and more if the money saved is invested. I just hate spending money if it’s unnecessary, which it seems it is in the passport case.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
— Mark Twain
The view of an enlightened person is someone who experienced a well-lived life and has an educated mind with a broad perspective tends to include travel as a core component in…
