I’m reading a book now that has a character who’s compulsive about shopping. She doesn’t care a fig about the things she’s bought, she just enjoyed buying them.
I also just watched a funny stage musical (“Into the Woods” for anyone who’s seen it) that has a song in it about how pursuing a woman was so much more fun and satisfying than actually catching and keeping one.
So here’s the question–which is more fun to you? Getting or having? Do you like to acquire things, win people, etc. just to be doing it, or do you actually value them once you have them? If you collect things, do you do it because the actual collection of objects gives you pleasure, or because you enjoy pursuing that unusual specimen that your collection lacks?
I’ll admit to being a shopper myself, but I really enjoy the having, most of the time. I don’t buy things just to buy things, usually. And I would never consider a person a thing to be “gotten”. The relationship means much more than the pursuit of the relationship. My collections are all things that give me pleasure, from both the getting and the having…
Actually, I video-taped it off a public television broadcast. If I ever get another VCR, I’ll make a copy and send it to you. I LOVED Bernadette Peters as the witch.
I often talk about my weekend adventures, telling my friends that I am going out to drink beer and chase women, then quickly adding that I have no intentions of catching one.
::another small hijack::
Bernadette Peters is wonderful! I always wanted to play her role! I also love Joanna Gleason! I will pay you to make me a copy if you ever get the equipment!
Zette, my house is full of stuff like that, too. But I do enjoy the “having” a lot, too, on some stuff. BTW, thanks for the link to the video. I’m sure evilbeth will be all over that…
