Sunk-Cost Fallacy (noun)
the phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial.
There you have it. I had a friend come by last Saturday, and he's going thru a divorce and it struck me that he is going 'lean and mean' in his new found freedom. He's purged all his 'junk', moved into a 1 bedroom apartment, sold off his CRX project and is feeling truly liberated. There are a lot of men's health gurus on the internet that preach the same things, get lean figuratively and literally in your daily life.
It also reminds me of the movie Labyrinth, the scene later in the movie where Sarah is lured into Jareth's made-up illusion of her bedroom and the old lady is loading her up with all her worldly possessions, creating a huge backpack burden of 'stuff'. It hit me.
I've done purges before, massive dumps of my collections, but they all seem to replenish the stocks. It does feel good at the time, and I'm not sure why I revert back. I probably need to see a shrink.
I'm confident that the bug is at the finish line, I only have a sundry list of things to clear, but the Jetta has me feeling indifferent. It is nowhere close to being done. I have set a goal of getting her running this year, but in truth that was last year's goal.
So, do I abandon the GLI? Am I in a sunk-cost fallacy with myself? I keep telling people, "I musta kept these parts for a reason?" among other fallacious arguments. I've come so far, but from another perspective, I haven't gotten anywhere...
I've never been more 'on a fence' about anything...
