Direct monologue about material attachmentfrom @sensei.nick

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If you're scared to use it, why did you buy it? A few years back, I watched a creator on YouTube always beating up his cameras in his videos, tossing it in bags, scratching it, and generally just mistreating it. And people in the comments were always furious. Oh, that worst thousands of dollars. How could you do that? And his response was pretty simple. If I protect the camera too much, I best the shot, and the shot is the entire reason it exists in the first place. And that stuck with me because most people don't struggle with money, they struggle with attachment. So once something expensive becomes yours, it stops being an best, and it becomes identity. No it represents success, taste, status, and sacrifice. So you start protecting like it's fragile, even when it's built to be used. Look at supercars, for example. They're engineered to be driven hard. Well, most of them, but that's what they're for, literally. Right? And people tend to park them in garages forever, afraid of scratches, afraid of miles, and afraid of losing value. But the value was in the experience. So humans hate loss more than they enjoy gain. So scratch a cheap car, it's annoying. Scratch a 6 figure car, it feels personal. So people tend to overprotect. Now here's the real divide in this. Some people buy tools to use them, and some people buy symbols to preserve them. So if you buy something for utility, but feel like a museum piece, you've shifted from living to guarding. And once you're guarding it, it starts controlling your behavior. You hesitate, you avoid, and you baby it. Now at that point, you don't own it. It owns you. No, there's nothing wrong with taking care of your stuff, but if fear of damage stops you from actually using it, and didn't buy a tool, you bought a trophy. And trophies don't create tier, use does.