In the past I’ve been a minimalist, enjoying rooms void of furniture, devoted to digital files over physical things. Growing up I discovered the ‘Why does this Matter?’ strategy, and the ‘Then What?’ strategy, and the ‘Walk around the store with it in your hands to measure your boredom rising because you don’t really need it’ strategy. But lately I’ve started collecting.
I’ve always loved robots, relating with their personalities more easily than humans. I’ve admired Mythbuster’s Adam Savage who had a cave full of props including R2D2. I once met R2 at Comicon and it was magical. I built a full scale Wall-e for a church event and it was the gateway drug.
Not only did I love seeing fantasy made real, but I loved seeing other people light up. Now I have nearly 50 robots including R2D2 and each time I finish one I post about it and hang on each response from the internet and my family. Very quickly I move onto the next because the last has such fleeting pleasure. That’s why I’m sharing this journal entry, to underline that as someone who has everything, I can definitively tell you,
things cannot fulfill you
because your purpose isn't to have things.
Nothing's wasted that is used so I will use my collection to inspire people to imagine a bright future, and to fuel conversations about my favorite stories and what they mean to me, but I will remember the toys are not the purpose themselves.
In the past I’ve been a minimalist, enjoying rooms void of furniture, devoted to digital files over physical things. Growing up I discovered the ‘Why does this Matter?’ strategy, and the ‘Then What?’ strategy, and the ‘Walk around the store with it in your hands to measure your boredom rising because you don’t really need it’ strategy. But lately I’ve started collecting.
I’ve always loved robots, relating with their personalities more easily than humans. I’ve admired Mythbuster’s Adam Savage who had a cave full of props including R2D2. I once met R2 at Comicon and it was magical. I built a full scale Wall-e for a church event and it was the gateway drug.
Not only did I love seeing fantasy made real, but I loved seeing other people light up. Now I have nearly 50 robots including R2D2 and each time I finish one I post about it and hang on each response from the internet and my family. Very quickly I move onto the next because the last has such fleeting pleasure. That’s why I’m sharing this journal entry, to underline that as someone who has everything, I can definitively tell you,
things cannot fulfill you
because your purpose isn't to have things.
Nothing's wasted that is used so I will use my collection to inspire people to imagine a bright future, and to fuel conversations about my favorite stories and what they mean to me, but I will remember the toys are not the purpose themselves.
Paradise, Love, and Life are what matters.