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Fascinating objects and collected memories: A chance to describe the things you find interesting

Oakling

A constant in my life is my fascination with, and collecting of, miniature things. It was something I used to do as a child and continue to do now. I used to collect the smallest versions of things and display them on my bedroom radiator shelf, almost like a museum. I would spend whole weekends preserving this objects, redesigning the layout of the shelf and creating exhibitions of each of these objects. Constant categorising and recategorising was a great way to spend me time.

Well, I was reminded of this today when I rediscovered a small pot of assorted gemstones, pebbles and minerals that I had collected over the years. This pot was in my bedside draw and when I went to get a book out of there, I found this pot again and was instantly transported back to that collectors mindset that I had back then. Life has been busy recently, so to get a moment to revisit the past and to sit and sort through a collection that bought me so much joy was wonderful. Agate, tigers eye, citrene, amethyst, quartz to name a few were all there and each with a story to tell. The piece of Blue John that sat there was as vivid and wonderful as the day I first encountered it. A moment of real peace and tranquillity.

Therefore, in pursuit of a little positivity here, I wondered if anyone would like to take a moment out of their day or time on here in order to describe something important them. Something that you wouldn’t get too many opportunities to speak about, but offers you the same satisfaction as I experienced this morning.

I don’t know if it would be a useful exercise, but I wanted to offer the opportunity to do something like this, especially with a lighter tone to conversation.

Genuinely, I would love to read your descriptions. It’s nice to see someone’s passion shine through. Especially on topics not usually thought of as interesting (like my fascination with miniature things and minerals).

Edit: I hope my last sentence doesn’t read ‘your interests are not interesting’, what I mean to say was that in life, we may have been told our interests are boring and weird (both I have experienced) and I want to get across the fact that they won’t be. If you’re interested enough in something, that passion cannot be seen as boring. 

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  • Hi Oakling,

    I'm not really a collector of physical things. That being said I do have a growing acquisition of crystals, I'm interested in spirituality. 

    I do like collecting information, as in I like to do research, I hand write it and put it into ringbinders. I have my folder about things relating to autism. And one about me (just my way of trying to understand myself). A spirituality folder, though my research has jumped about a lot in that field. And there's my folder on communication, which actually relates a lot to the arts. I like the concept of art, music and performance as forms of communication. Though I'm particularly fond of silent forms of communication. 

    I did follow a colleague about the other month talking at her about communication. And from the responses she made ( when looking back) I was definitely talking at her and not to her. Ooops. I get very excited that music is a universal written language, though I can't actually read music. Something I keep meaning to learn. I also want to explore more about calligraphy and other written forms of communication. And now I'm getting myself over excited.

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  • Hi Oakling,

    I'm not really a collector of physical things. That being said I do have a growing acquisition of crystals, I'm interested in spirituality. 

    I do like collecting information, as in I like to do research, I hand write it and put it into ringbinders. I have my folder about things relating to autism. And one about me (just my way of trying to understand myself). A spirituality folder, though my research has jumped about a lot in that field. And there's my folder on communication, which actually relates a lot to the arts. I like the concept of art, music and performance as forms of communication. Though I'm particularly fond of silent forms of communication. 

    I did follow a colleague about the other month talking at her about communication. And from the responses she made ( when looking back) I was definitely talking at her and not to her. Ooops. I get very excited that music is a universal written language, though I can't actually read music. Something I keep meaning to learn. I also want to explore more about calligraphy and other written forms of communication. And now I'm getting myself over excited.

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  • in reply to Pikl

    Your folders sound amazing! I wish I could look through them.  That kind of passion is beautiful. 

  • in reply to Pikl
    Pikl said:
    And now I'm getting myself over excited.

    Brilliant! I was hoping that by giving people a chance to talk about what they are interested in, some of those positive feelings might come to the forefront.

    It’s fascinating to hear how you collect and organise your interests. The folders on autism and you sound interesting, I did something similar but on a much smaller scale when looking for reasonable adjustments in the workplace.

    Unfortunately I think many of us here know that feeling of talking at someone, but I think something wonderful that this space can offer, if we let it, that the outside can’t really is a chance to write at length about the things that interest us, judgement free. We are so used to stopping ourselves, but I don’t think we need to here. If you want to write more, please do. Dyslexia and energy levels stop me sometimes too, but I come back to it whenever I can.

    I have lost too many hours to watching calligraphy videos- it can be so satisfying. I’d love to give it a proper go one day. I think music notation (even though I don’t read it either) can have the look of calligraphy to it. But maybe thats what I see due to not knowing what any of it means! 

    Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Please feel free to add any more if you feel you want to.