When it comes to my personal belongings, sometimes I want to embrace minimalism, as I love the philosophy and mindset.
Other times, I’m reminded of all the cool shit I have.
To this day, my inner child is still traumatized from my Mom making me sell all of my He-man and Transformers toys practically at gun-point when I was a kid. FOR A QUARTER A PIECE!!!
I love my cool shit. Still...
Maybe someday I’ll sell it all, or let it burn and leave my native land behind and buy a cabin somewhere far away. With a really great dog.
Steve’s thought of the evening.
oldernow:
Yep that's Gemini in a nutshell! If you read that *actual* story of the twins - Castor and Pollux - (or many many variations from China to Mezo-America) you'll find out that one of the twins is dead. The deal was--twins were raised together until puberty and then one was killed. The natural link between twins thus became a link between the living and the dead. To this day Geminis struggle between periods of creativity and/or socializing followed by periods of complete shutdown. learning that this is a pattern and anticipating it--and not judging it--is tough but doable. or that's what i keep telling my Gemini wife!. // and i did that thing once: sold a bunch things and got me a cabin. now i so regret that. what did i sell? oh, nothing special, just Spiderman#1, the first series of Nick Fury Agent of Shield, Sub-mariner #1, and 8 original Zap comix. any one of them now would have bought that cabin and all the land for a good distance around!
hellsteve:
@oldernow ouch. Yeah I sold the first 30 issues of Walking dead for a little over $1200. I wasn’t working at the time so…no regrets. But I can totally relate to periods of productivity followed by periods of inactivity. This rings true. But yes. I don’t mind telling you that I have. A. Lot. Of. Comics. And sometimes, I just think of unburdening my self and selling the lot. Unfortunately my go to contact for selling my collection passed away due to covid so. Now trying to sell everything would be a huge undertaking. And I’m still not sure about it. Every day I feel differently.