Hate the game, not the player?

“We need to find a way to enter into a healthy relationship whereby I am not overly reliant on your approval […] and whereby you are not being an insufferable fucking distraction.”

— From “An Open Letter to the ‘ECO’ Light on the Dashboard of My Car,” by Scott Mancuso (McSweeney’s).

First you set up these little automatic things to remind you to do the right thing. Then you start resenting them (aka yourself).