Take, for example, music.


My (vinyl) record collection consists of a few hundred albums. I have considerably fewer CDs, simply because discs weren't around when I was building my collection. I do, however, have numerous boxes of cassettes, and my MP3 collection, though it consists primarily of digital versions of albums I own, is far from small. At the moment we have a working turntable in the house, in addition to a working tape deck, and of course a CD player and computer. I'm in a position to listen to my entire collection - but I only very rarely even listen to parts of it. There's so much music available that I haven't heard yet which I'd like to hear. If I spend my time listening to my collection, I won't have the time to listen to anything new. The music I know (and love) can very easily become clutter that doesn't allow new sounds to reach me.



Go to: Holding on / Letting go.