I had been wondering about why I enjoy earning miles. I realized one important, yet unpublished, benefit: The complete control over the size of your Milage account.

This fall, the growth in my AAdvantage account has taken my mind of the decline in the value of my tech-dominated brokerage accounts. I check my milage balance much more than the brokerage accounts, making sure that the miles and upgrades are posting correctly. I wonder how I would have reacted if the charts were reversed

By nature, people accumulate whatever gives them joy. Everybody accumulates money; but accumulating miles is definitely more exciting . And since you have total control over the direction of your account, being a milage junkie makes you feel good even if you are not doing all that well accumulating money. (it is way pass my bedtime perhaps).



[This message has been edited by SJC2ISP (edited 12-07-2000).]