There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.
Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.
Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.
We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.
We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.
Nobody likes to throw stuff away. It's just antithetical to our sense of being a person. But we're all habituated to that way of living today.
Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.
I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things.