Collection

Collecting things as a hobby can be a lifelong pursuit. It can take on a life of its own, and take us down a road where we’re searching everywhere for that one item (or two or three . . .) that belongs in our collection.

Although it might be just a hobby to collect, it can easily become more. Those collectibles can fill up bookshelves, walls, or entire rooms. The time that we invest into collecting can span years–decades even. In the process, we become experts in the field as if we’ve earned a Phd in it, knowing every nuance of the items we collect, and where to get the best deals on them.

This hobby of collecting can range anywhere from video games, cards, stamps, coins, memorabilia, books, artwork, comics, etc. It begins with having an item or two–an object that piques our interests, one that sparks our curiosity. As we collect more, we uncover a world that has a life of its own, including a history with its own origin story, and how those objects evolved into what they are today.

As we dive deeper into this world, collecting things like there’s no tomorrow, filling up our bookshelves until there’s no space left, we start to realize that no matter how much we collect, there’s always more to collect, and in some cases, there’ll be something new that will come out in the future.