Thoughts on blogging and toy collecting

I renamed my website/blog recently.  The previous title had always been a temporary one until I could come up with a better alternative name. 

I realised that despite this being meant as a blog about collecting toys, at times I do blog about other aspects of life.  Hey I’m also human too and I can’t be thinking about toys every second.  The former website title was “Crazy About Toys”, but I’m really not that obsessed with toys as compared to 10 years ago when I was in the Rapid growth stage.  I’m currently more of a casual collector.  I’m older now and have been through more experiences in life than when I first started collecting toys.

I’ve also got my ups and downs.  I still go through the highs and lows of emotions like everyone else.  It depends on what life throws at me, and whether I am prepared or not to receive, avoid, go round, and overcome them.  Now that I am in the second quarter of my life, there are many things that are already too late for me.  Fortunately in this information age, there are still other available options even if we didn’t get to live the ideal life we had always wanted.  But of course these other options can get a little harder at times because we often have to start from scratch all over again.

Many toys in my collections have been with me for years.  They have ‘watched’ me live through the past 10 years.  I often wonder, if my toys can talk to me, what would they say to me today?  I imagine that some of my toys (the action figures especially, and somehow not the ponies) would be quite smart.  They know how to read my self-help books and study notes, and understand how to apply those skills to make a living.  They would then frown at my somewhat ‘tardiness’ in the so-called journey to my goals.

One day, I should ‘interview’ some of them and hear what they are thinking about.  Or perhaps they really can’t be bothered with me and just go about in their ‘toy lives’.  Yes, after being a toy collector for many years, one can start to imagine toys having a ‘life’ of their own, like in those Enid Blyton stories we read in our childhood. 

But no worries, we are still sane, just that our toys tend to instill a great dose of imagination in our minds when we are with them long enough.  That’s what toys were made for in the first place, that is to fire up the imaginations of the children who play with them.  Somehow as most children grew up to adults, they left much of their imaginations at places like Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. 

The movie, “Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium” best sums up this idea.  This movie is not the best entertainment movie around but it will appeal to you if you are at a certain stage of your life where you think that ‘miracles’ are not possible because you don’t believe in them, or in anything that seems too good to be true.  I find that no matter how stressful one gets, don’t just take the easy ways out like venting your frustrations on someone else or avoiding the problems all together. 

Keep an opened mind, think positive and change your mindset if necessary.  Apply the Law of Attraction for the good things to come your way.  But first, you MUST throw ALL your skepticism out the window.  If you still have any hint of cynicism in any remote part of you mind, then you’re not there yet.  You’ve got to believe it first, then you’ll see life differently from before.  Whether it’s for better depends on the mindset that you adopt.  Believe it.