Minor ephiphany
I've gone a little bit insane with the power of the internet - today I came home to check the mail box and I had 6 cds waiting for me... in my defense I bought them new or used from sellers on Amazon, so I'm doing my part to keep small businesses and the US Postal service in the money one cd at a time. I am however, running out of room. I have hundreds of cds already in books and still have another couple of hundred on the self... and I'm running out of storage space on my external back up drive to hold the files. My mp3 player is already out lived it's usefulness because I filled 8 GB will just a little sampling of my music. I need to purge it and sync it again with more selective albums... I almost need one mp3 player for each genre of music...
So my friend at work told me that I was a hoarder, and I'm like, "Nah, dude, I constantly work to keep cycling things out of the house and out of my closet. I have strict rules about how long I will let an item of clothing sit in my closet unworn. I even got rid of shelves full of books - I went from 8 down to 3, but I hate to admit he might be kinda right about the cds because I haven't gotten rid of a single one. I've gotten rid of boxes of VHS tapes, and even swap out dvds for trade after a while, but I have never willingly given up any cds. This is not to say that I haven't gifted people cds for some reason or another and I'm not saying I haven't lost a few over the years from roommates who borrowed and then forgot to return. Ultimately, I can pick up a disc and recall where I bought it or what I was doing when I first heard it played. I don't have that kind of connection with books I've read. I do have that recall with movies I really liked or movies that really made an impact on me.
I guess this is my ephiphany about myself for today. I do not know what I will do with this knowledge, but I will definitely tell my friend that I think he is correct. Years ago I broke my shoe hoarding tendency. I don't want to break this habit, so I will have to think on it for a while and see where it leaves me.