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Message: <blockquote data-quote="joethelawyer" data-source="post: 4569422" data-attributes="member: 55764">This is kind of like cars and trucks, to make an analogy.  Let's say you were a ford pickup truck lover all your life.  You come from a long line of ford pickup truck lovers.  Let's assume for the sake of the analogy that up until 2008, ford pickup trucks were incredibly easy to work on, modify, tinker with pimp-out, repair them yourself, etc.  Basically, whatever you wanted to do with them, you could do.  And it still remained the basic manly looking ford pickup truck at its core.  Ford never cared that you tinkered with them, and in fact made it easy for you to do so in every way.Now lets say that in 2009, Ford decides to revamp the pickup truck.  They make it pink with purple polkadots, and give it green furry trim all over.  They make the engine so electronic based and confusing for the average backyard mechanic, that you can no longer freely tinker with it.  Even worse, they make you sign an agreement upon purchase that you will not be able to change its exterior or engine, or else you agree to be subject to a high fine.  You are outraged at the new direction ford went in.You can do one of 2 things, as i see it.  1.  Rant and rave like an idiot, but knowing all the while that nothing will really come of it, AND BE MISERABLE.2.  drive your old ford pickup and just tell yourself that you had the last true  ford pickup, the new one is not really a ford pickup, (regardless of the truth of that statement or not--people convince themselves that what is false is true, all the time) AND BE HAPPY.I'd rather be happy driving my old pickup.  Why be miserable about not being able to drive a pickup you didn't really like anyway?  It's much more pleasant than choosing to be miserable.</blockquote>

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