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My friend sold his Video Game Collection, it just made me have a midlife crisis at 29. Is this normal? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by yuunikki@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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My friend and I collect old video games. But all my physical media just sits on my shelves and collects dust. Why do I even collect them? I literally just emulate everything. Is there a purpose to what I do? People ask me why I collect and I never have a real answer because I don't even know. If I never play my stuff, is it worth just selling?

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[–] gjghkk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There doesn’t need to be a real reason, sometimes we do things just because we feel like doing them.

This all sounds like good, but it isn't.

What if we need to feel a purpose to do things? I am not a hoarder, just because of this reason. I only play or buy games that me or my children would play. Because hoarding, for the sake of hoarding doesn't make sense to me.

You say that we don't need to have an excuse to do things you do, and I disagree with that, because to feel good about my actions, I need to make sense of my actions. Otherwise it all feels purposeless.

[–] sky@codesink.io 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Life is purposeless! There’s literally no meaning to all of this we’re just here for a lil while and then we’re gone! let people enjoy their game collection or whatever holy shit

[–] gjghkk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

let people enjoy their game collection or whatever holy shit

Where tf did I say people shouldn't enjoy their life, why are you putting words in my mouth. I only said that people rather should do what they think it purposeful instead of doing things that feels purposeless. I think that people can enjoy their life for the better, if they do things that are more purposeful instead. If collecting things makes them enjoy it, let them.

Either be against that, instead of getting a straw-man argument.

Life is purposeless!

Disagree with that statement, but I don't want to get into that, as that is not the subject.

[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

It isn't hoarding. People really need to stop throwing that around so casually.

And Im sorry to hear you can't just do things. Needing a purpose all the time sounds exhausting.