Convince me guys!

[BailOut]

Kevin,

I feel you should look at why you feel that you don't like the car, and why you feel that another may increase your level of happiness. What I mean is, are these feelings derived from some social need to fit in, a deep desire to fulfill empty marketing promises, a desire to please others, expected performance that is needed rather than wanted, etc?

In a consumer culture we can find ourselves in odd and uncomfortable situations due to two main issues:

1) It is impossible to make a decision without emotional encroachment into the logical thought process, but if one allows the emotion component to weight too heavily on decision making this is where regret comes from later on.

2) The North American culture has dangerously become one of instant gratification, but whenever you get something faster or easier than it should be, be it cars, food or anything else, it always comes at a higher price. Financing anything is not cheap, and cars tend to be the worst and most rapidly depreciating investment one can make. Continuing on this line, rolling one auto loan into another is one of the worst financial pitfalls one can fall into.

As such I ask you to take a piece of the Alcoholics Anonymous 12 step program and perform a personal moral inventory. Look hard within yourself and discern who you really are, go over all decisions you've made whether good or bad, decide what is truly meaningful to you in the long term and how you can achieve these things in a sane, responsible, forward-looking and non-self-harmful way.

That takes most of us a week or two to finish. Once done I think you'll be a in much more realistic and meaningful mental place as it concerns not only your car but many other things, and you will know what to do with and how to feel about your Yaris.

[.Kevin.]

Originally Posted by BailOut

Kevin,

I feel you should look at why you feel that you don't like the car, and why you feel that another may increase your level of happiness. What I mean is, are these feelings derived from some social need to fit in, a deep desire to fulfill empty marketing promises, a desire to please others, expected performance that is needed rather than wanted, etc?

In a consumer culture we can find ourselves in odd and uncomfortable situations due to two main issues:

1) It is impossible to make a decision without emotional encroachment into the logical thought process, but if one allows the emotion component to weight too heavily on decision making this is where regret comes from later on.

2) The North American culture has dangerously become one of instant gratification, but whenever you get something faster or easier than it should be, be it cars, food or anything else, it always comes at a higher price. Financing anything is not cheap, and cars tend to be the worst and most rapidly depreciating investment one can make. Continuing on this line, rolling one auto loan into another is one of the worst financial pitfalls one can fall into.

As such I ask you to take a piece of the Alcoholics Anonymous 12 step program and perform a personal moral inventory. Look hard within yourself and discern who you really are, go over all decisions you've made whether good or bad, decide what is truly meaningful to you in the long term and how you can achieve these things in a sane, responsible, forward-looking and non-self-harmful way.

That takes most of us a week or two to finish. Once done I think you'll be a in much more realistic and meaningful mental place as it concerns not only your car but many other things, and you will know what to do with and how to feel about your Yaris.

This is partially what I did, I thought to myself. I figure I would be alot more happier with a decent velocity capable vehicle, nice look etc than the truck or sports car.

The only thing I'm pissed about now is Sleey0 scamming me for my self birthday present lol