As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. - Henry David Thoreau
1. It’s expensive. You have paid an obscene amount (by your own standard) of money for it. So you rationalize saying it’s an investment although you can’t say the item’s name without the swear-word adjective.
2. It’s charging you. You are still paying interest for it, even though you don’t use it anymore, or it’s broken.
3. It’s rare. You have spent your whole life searching around the world for it, even though now you have forgotten where you even placed it.
4. It looks like something an intelligent person would keep, even though you find it difficult to appreciate it. You keep Close Encounter of the Third Kind just because people say it’s a classic Spielberg even though the movie bores you to death. You keep a collection of books by Stephen Covey although you know the contents are all common sense, and you can’t even finish any one book. And sometimes, your “intelligence” is telling you that if you keep it long enough, it might go up in value, and you can make a fortune out of it.
5. It was a gift, even though you don’t like it, or can’t find use for it. Maybe you did, but not anymore.
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