http://stress-freedom.net Epicurean Happiness Guidance Wed, 09 May 2012 11:14:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://stress-freedom.net/2008/04/cutting-out-the-autobahn/ http://stress-freedom.net/2008/04/cutting-out-the-autobahn/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:12:47 +0000 Galenios http://stressfreedomguide.com/?p=28 Until March 2008 I had to drive almost daily about 35 km to my office in Düsseldorf and then 35 km back in the evening.  Out 35 km 22 km was autobahn driving with 100 kmph and 120 kmph speed limit and with some kilometers without speed limit. But the speed limit made no difference, since the autobahn was almost constantly crowded and jammed. It was stressful to crawl in the traffic jam with a meeting ahead and it was stressful to drive at 180 or 200kmph and then brake sharply down to  30 kmph  or less. Since we moved to another town I only have to drive 8 km to my office on roads that are jammed only between 5 and 6 p.m. It gives me a definitely pleasurable feeling of relief and stressFREEDOM to hear  about the traffic jams on the autobahn in the radio and not being stuck in it. No, I am not schadefroh, since I feel something like pity for the people struggling on the autobahn.  Nobody stops them, of course, from moving closer to their offices and cutting out the daily autobahn-stress…

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