Comments on: Meditation on Collecting Stuff http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/12/meditation-on-collecting-stuff/ interpretations of places, books, and other texts Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:34:40 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Martyn Smith http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/12/meditation-on-collecting-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Martyn Smith Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:58:19 +0000 http://oldroads.org/blog/?p=887#comment-156 that's interesting about the change from child to adult. Maybe that's true. Especially with technology it seems that the point is to get the next thing and dump the last thing. And there are fewer incentives for books and music. I'm just thinking.. so maybe we do well to think about life more like a child collecting things? that’s interesting about the change from child to adult. Maybe that’s true. Especially with technology it seems that the point is to get the next thing and dump the last thing. And there are fewer incentives for books and music. I’m just thinking.. so maybe we do well to think about life more like a child collecting things?

]]> By: Dar http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/12/meditation-on-collecting-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-144 Dar Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:18:28 +0000 http://oldroads.org/blog/?p=887#comment-144 "Looking through the eyes of a child I see that collecting is everywhere encouraged.. and so it must be learned to a large degree." To that the extend that that is true, then kids have it better than adults. Atleast kids are encouraged to actually collect (in the true sense of the word, as with your baseball cards), and then use the collection to stimulate their imagination. Whereas we adults are encourages less to colect and more to just buy, then discard, then buy, then discard, etc.... In fact, the culture for adults actually discourages collecting of any sorts. “Looking through the eyes of a child I see that collecting is everywhere encouraged.. and so it must be learned to a large degree.”

To that the extend that that is true, then kids have it better than adults.

Atleast kids are encouraged to actually collect (in the true sense of the word, as with your baseball cards), and then use the collection to stimulate their imagination.

Whereas we adults are encourages less to colect and more to just buy, then discard, then buy, then discard, etc…. In fact, the culture for adults actually discourages collecting of any sorts.

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