do books as objects have any sentimental value for you?
Nah, think that shit is kind of stupid.
I have a limited attachment to all objects. Growing up (actually) poor granted me an appreciation for stuff but it also helped in understanding how meaningless everything really is. So did my marriage. When it ended, I had three hefty bags of goodwlll clothes in my possession and that's it. Was also giving her $1800 a month and living off $100 for food.
Regardless, I try to hold on to my shit as long as possible. i'm not anal retentive about it though and often have an awareness of owning something without any knowledge of where it is.
I lose a lot of books by letting people borrow them too. Once lent $350 worth of poetry books to this bartender girl and never saw it again. Is what it is.
What's important is the absorption of ideas/sentences/words, not the object that houses them.
I have a limited attachment to all objects. Growing up (actually) poor granted me an appreciation for stuff but it also helped in understanding how meaningless everything really is. So did my marriage. When it ended, I had three hefty bags of goodwlll clothes in my possession and that's it. Was also giving her $1800 a month and living off $100 for food.
Regardless, I try to hold on to my shit as long as possible. i'm not anal retentive about it though and often have an awareness of owning something without any knowledge of where it is.
I lose a lot of books by letting people borrow them too. Once lent $350 worth of poetry books to this bartender girl and never saw it again. Is what it is.
What's important is the absorption of ideas/sentences/words, not the object that houses them.