read this

[rm]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/04/18/135508305/the-sad-beautiful-fact-that-were-all-going-to-miss-almost-everything

Cultural dismissal and culling vs. surrender.

Culling is easy; it implies a huge amount of control and mastery. Surrender, on the other hand, is a little sad. That's the moment you realize you're separated from so much. That's your moment of understanding that you'll miss most of the music and the dancing and the art and the books and the films that there have ever been and ever will be, and right now, there's something being performed somewhere in the world that you're not seeing that you would love.

Comments

[deakat]

Thank you. I think that re-reading that regularly may assist me in fighting my hoarding tendencies. I do not need ALL THE BOOKS.

[natf.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I need to realise that, just because disk space is cheap these days and there is always the cloud/Dropbox, I do not need ALL THE EbOOKS because I will never have time to read them all, despite wanting to READ ALL THE WORDS since I was three and first learned to read.