Collections

I have a collection of Magic cards, one that is a few thousand too many, as I don't use most of them and I doubt I ever will. Not because I chose each one individually but because they came together, I don't collect much else, I have a few coins here and there mostly cause when I think about it, I'm reminded of Pirate hordes and I'd like to have a pirate horde privately stashed away from the world so that if it is discovered others are tremendously happy not to mention tremendously rich.

One day...

Anyhow I collect things more inside my head than anywhere else. I don't like souvenirs the always seem cheap and lifeless pictures need to tell a story and often they don't and I'm always watching my wallet as it tries to run off with new gadgets every chance it gets.

So I know stories, If you meet me and I learn about you I grasp every bit of knowledge about you that I can and file it away in my head. Your thoughts movie preferences, music taste, everything. So I know more exciting things about others, and I live somewhat viacariously through them as I know I can't travel to the parts of their lives that they choose to share. This doesn't mean I don't do things for myself, I jump at the chance, but it does mean that I feel like I'm really older than I am since I seem to have years of experience that isn't mine.

So when I'm asked about my age I often feel shocked to find that I'm only 23, (soon to be 24) And it just lets me know that I have so much left to say, do and experience that I, like Calvin may never die as there is too much left to live for. Unless of course I'm in a space, ninja battle trying to save a child from aliens. Then I just might be satisfied.

I do find that I try to collect interesting people's thoughts and idea and I limit myself from some people because when I do learn about people I unconsciously make them me for a moment. This may be why I have trouble with names, A Lee or a Kimberly may just be part of me for a day.

This post is now part of your collection of me as I know that to get things you often have to give something of yourself.