FOUND: My Cubscout Shirt
Looking at some artifacts from my past I discovered this old cubscout shirt. Thinking back, the effort represented in the badges and beads explains a lot about my preoccupation with collecting things. It's physical transference onto a design artifact upon completion of some task or assimilation of knowledge. I've always been a pack rat of sorts but it's only with objects that hold some knowledge value or represent a completed goal. But I hold these things as reference, or portals.
What's interesting about this shirt is the reminder that my accomplishments - when I was younger - were so measured by the acquisition of these badges. And what's even more interesting is that I don't remember what I did to get these badges. No wisdom was gained. I need to take a closer look the things I surround myself with at the moment. Are they just meaningless badges? Representations of wasted time.
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