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Much Like a Soap Bubble - Our Collecting Passions and an Interesting Question.
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We all collect something, be it coins, friends, knowledge. In this online community in particular, it is what brings us together, and our passions for what we collect undoubtably create boundaries between us as collectors. The differences in opinion of what is nice and what isn't and the bickering over moderns vs. classics basically boil down to the fact that we are inspired by what we collect and wish to encourage others to enjoy in what we have found to enjoy ourselves. The absence of altercations and disagreements equates to the absence of passion.
What we do is so small in regards to the entire scheme of things that simply collecting little round disks may seem laughable to most but is it not what we feel is a part of us?
It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory--and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making. - Mark Twain's Own Autobiography (North American Review, May 3, 1907)
Much like a soap bubble, nothing lasts forever, not even coins. While there are coins in superb condition from hundreds and thousands of years ago, they are only a tiny part of a miniscule blink in the history of this beautiful world. Again, much like a soap bubble, not even Earth will last forever. The astrological body which gave us life on this planet will eventually grow into a Red Giant millions of years from now and engulf our beautiful world and everything that was preserved within. Much like a soap bubble.
Now, a question for us collectors who have the pleasure of enjoying these historical and beautiful works of round metallic art.
I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap-bubble, if there was only one in the world? - Mark Twain
What we do is so small in regards to the entire scheme of things that simply collecting little round disks may seem laughable to most but is it not what we feel is a part of us?
It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory--and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making. - Mark Twain's Own Autobiography (North American Review, May 3, 1907)
Much like a soap bubble, nothing lasts forever, not even coins. While there are coins in superb condition from hundreds and thousands of years ago, they are only a tiny part of a miniscule blink in the history of this beautiful world. Again, much like a soap bubble, not even Earth will last forever. The astrological body which gave us life on this planet will eventually grow into a Red Giant millions of years from now and engulf our beautiful world and everything that was preserved within. Much like a soap bubble.
Now, a question for us collectors who have the pleasure of enjoying these historical and beautiful works of round metallic art.
I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap-bubble, if there was only one in the world? - Mark Twain
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<< <i>The differences in opinion of what is nice and what isn't and the bickering over moderns vs. classics basically boil down to the fact that we are inspired by what we collect and wish to encourage others to enjoy in what we have found to enjoy ourselves. >>
Actually, the last thing I want to do is increase demand for the stuff I'm collecting.
J. B. - this almost made me spit coffee all over my keyboard!!!
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Whenever I "sweat the small stuff" I think about this. It really helps put things back in perspective.
I am a collector
And things, well things
They tend to accumulate
<< <i>geez Brandon did you hit the bong today? >>
More like a hit of orange sunshine.
He's probably contempating his navel, 'bout now.
<< <i>geez Brandon did you hit the bong today?
J. B. - this almost made me spit coffee all over my keyboard!!!
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<< <i>geez Brandon did you hit the bong today?
J. B. - this almost made me spit coffee all over my keyboard!!!
Yuk yuk!!! Joe Dirt made a funny!!!
Just bits of cosmic debris temporarily held into a form we find useful and pleasing... but ultimately doomed to resume their travels through the cosmos as gasses and bits of ore trapped in the flotsam of our doomed planet.
Now I'm sort of depressed.
<< <i>geez Brandon did you hit the bong today? >>
Yeah, that boy is all hopped up on the weed. Have mercy!
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<< <i>So, our coins are really pointless then?
Just bits of cosmic debris temporarily held into a form we find useful and pleasing... but ultimately doomed to resume their travels through the cosmos as gasses and bits of ore trapped in the flotsam of our doomed planet.
Now I'm sort of depressed. >>
Actually, it was meant to put everything you hold dear into perspective and to help you realize that time is fleeting yet relative to the viewpoint.
<< <i>So, our coins are really pointless then?
Just bits of cosmic debris temporarily held into a form we find useful and pleasing... but ultimately doomed to resume their travels through the cosmos as gasses and bits of ore trapped in the flotsam of our doomed planet.
Now I'm sort of depressed. >>
You're not the only one... Everything I do seems moot now. No one cares about my blog. Work? Work, who am I really helping at work? Anyone?
<< <i>So, our coins are really pointless then?
Just bits of cosmic debris temporarily held into a form we find useful and pleasing... but ultimately doomed to resume their travels through the cosmos as gasses and bits of ore trapped in the flotsam of our doomed planet.
Now I'm sort of depressed. >>
It's easy to lose sight of the big picture. But before you get too depressed
you should consider that were there only one soap bubble it would be held
dear if only briefly.
It's not only the immense size and eternity of the universe which should give
us pause but the infinite number of perspectives one can get in it. There is
the utter impossibility of ever knowing where we or it is headed. Usually even
the easy questions like how we got here are answerable only by orthodoxy
which is forever being amended.
The great pyramid builders, no doubt, had these thoughts in mind as they
toiled at a monument which would remain and forever inspire people to reach
just a little further. That they built these with primitive tools with methods as
yet unknown only enhances their ability to inspire. There's an old Arab proverb:
Man fears time, and time fears the pyramid."
If we maintain our perspective and try to see from other times and places it
not only helps us to see our own but also teaches humility.
A little humility makes time much less frightening.
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
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The secret to getting ahead is getting a tail, Boo Boo.
-Mark Twain
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Reminds me of the time I was in astronomy 101 class as a freshman, the professor was discussing the solar life cycle and the expectation that the Sun would expand and destroy the earth in 3 to 5 billion years.
this blonde UCLA coed raises her hand and asks in a concerned voice, "did you say million or billion??
"Billion"
[relieved]"WHEW!"
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