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Collections, Collecting, and Collective Energy

Much like these things that elicit a visceral reaction, there are people we are equally as drawn to. In addition to building collections of things, I'd argue that we are also in the business of collecting people.

Recently, I’ve been noticing a theme.

I’ve amassed lots of collections in my life. Whether it be post cards, Wonder Woman bric a brac, old letters, tiny ceramic animals-We all have something that we like to hang on to. Those things we can’t pass up when we see them on the shelf or at the garage sale…Those things that other people pick up for us. Things that speak to us in a strange, straight to the gut way. Logic fails in the face of these things. Even if you have 17, there is no room on the shelf, and no room in your budget, you will still fight to acquire them.

Much like these things that elicit a visceral reaction, there are people we are equally as drawn to. In addition to building collections of things, I’d argue that we are also in the business of collecting people. We seek out those we sense a bond with. Personally, I am notorious for initiating coffee and lunch dates with people I barely know simply based on a sense I get from them. The sense that we have something to offer each other. The sense that I need them in my collection.

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What is the point of collections and the act of collecting? In the end, I think we are looking to achieve a sense of completeness. The right balance of things (or people) that will lead to harmony. The belief that when we achieve this magic, we’ll be somehow content. We’ll have achieved something. When it comes to the collecting of people, there is something powerful about our collective energy. The awesome power that can come, on both spiritual and more literal levels, from people bouncing themselves off of one another. Their thoughts, feelings, ideas, energies. The same way you strive to balance your collection of stamps, coins, dolls, what have you with just the right kinds and types, the same is true with the people you surround yourself with.  

I’m suggesting we deliberately seek out people with whom we feel a connection by actively building own community, choosing to engage people who are different from ourselves, who make us smile, who challenge us, and who bring out the best in us.  My thought is that maybe, just maybe, we'll be able to leverage the same concept that guides our other collections and we'll achieve the real life version of that magical…Something.

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If I spent as much time constructing a support network of people as I do rounding out my collection of things, I can only imagine how powerful that would be…Like the feeling I get when I look at my Wonder Woman bobble heads times 100!

 

 

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