Recent revelation
Aug. 24th, 2005 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captain_slinkyI don't enjoy having everything I want... I enjoy GETTING everything I want.
Seriously! Here I am in an apartment litterally CRAMMED FULL of stuff that I have always wanted and now have. Am I happy with it? HELL NO! But when I was *getting* all this stuff? Hell yeah I was having a good time! The Back To The Future Deloreon Model Kit is just a trophy to PROVE to my fellow hunters that yes, I was the mighty hunter who bagged that one.
And that is the Twilight Zone twist to the current trend of catering to all the Geeks like me. There's nothing left to get! I remember searching high and low, finally paying something like $80 for every episode of Transformers on bootlegged VHS at a convention. Gettign that collection was THE BEST, even if I never watched it! Now even the most obscure of 80's entertainment properties are available with a single click on Amazon.com... no hunt, no chase. Just CLICK and 3 days later you own every episode of Punky Brewster.
I keep on thinking that I'm collecting all this stuff for my kid, who some day will want all these things like I did. But why would he want these things? There's no chase. There's no longing. It's just *there*, to be taken for granted.
This depressing train of thought has had at least one positive stop on its route; I am eing much more considerate in my own purchases now. I always think "Sure I want that, but how am I gonna feel once I *have* it?"
$120 credit at Suncoast Video and nothin I really want to HAVE :(
Seriously! Here I am in an apartment litterally CRAMMED FULL of stuff that I have always wanted and now have. Am I happy with it? HELL NO! But when I was *getting* all this stuff? Hell yeah I was having a good time! The Back To The Future Deloreon Model Kit is just a trophy to PROVE to my fellow hunters that yes, I was the mighty hunter who bagged that one.
And that is the Twilight Zone twist to the current trend of catering to all the Geeks like me. There's nothing left to get! I remember searching high and low, finally paying something like $80 for every episode of Transformers on bootlegged VHS at a convention. Gettign that collection was THE BEST, even if I never watched it! Now even the most obscure of 80's entertainment properties are available with a single click on Amazon.com... no hunt, no chase. Just CLICK and 3 days later you own every episode of Punky Brewster.
I keep on thinking that I'm collecting all this stuff for my kid, who some day will want all these things like I did. But why would he want these things? There's no chase. There's no longing. It's just *there*, to be taken for granted.
This depressing train of thought has had at least one positive stop on its route; I am eing much more considerate in my own purchases now. I always think "Sure I want that, but how am I gonna feel once I *have* it?"
$120 credit at Suncoast Video and nothin I really want to HAVE :(
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Date: 2005-08-25 12:05 am (UTC)And yeah, the GETTING is the fun part. HAVING just means you have to pack it & carry it up & down several flights of stairs when & if you move. Of course, once you have that realization that the GETTING is the good bit, and you've carried all your cool shit up & down several flights of stairs 3 or 4 times, you begin to define what qualifies as worth HAVING... to the extent of having to carry whatever it is up & down the stairs 5 or 6 more times on top of what you've already done.
That's when you start to accumulate the things/stuff that you'd kill to protect.
I have one (just one) box of books that qualifies that way.