Can Creator comment on the human propensity to collect things? Almost every human at some point in their life, given an opportunity, will collect something. For most, it’s a minor diversion that often is pursued inconsistently and for brief periods. But for others, it can go to extremes. It does seem for some collectors, there is a genuine desire to preserve the past, to be a caretaker of the items for future generations. So it appears to be a complex behavior with many motives. What is Creator’s perspective?

This is a very human notion and a response to built-in deep inner programming, to acquire means to prevail, to persist in your learning and growth along with maintaining safety and security as a bedrock fundamental need. You quickly learn as a child being dependent has its drawbacks. You must always wait on someone else to favor you, to take time out to see to your needs, and you may wait quite a long while for special privileges or special favors, hence the annual birthday celebration with the likelihood of receiving at least one gift, as well as the Christmas holiday offering many delights for children. This is a part of accommodating to life, learning that one must use their own initiative to get ahead, to gain things of value, and must husband these resources or they will be lost, someone will take them away if they are not sheltered and protected and watched over carefully. So this trait has value in preparing people for life and can reap rewards. There are many things one learns from such an activity. The first and most important is that something wonderful might need to come slowly and acquired bit by bit to the extent the smaller portions are affordable, but only have great meaning in an aggregate that is acquired over time, and this rewards patience, persistence, focus, and endurance, and thereby teaches important values and strategies that can be a lifelong asset. You see this in the notion of "preparing for a rainy day" when one seeks to have on hand needed provisions, perhaps a stash of some currency for emergencies. You think of collectors and that behavior as applying more to hobbies, and this is a special circumstance that stands out because it is otherwise of limited value and is often more a financial drain than reward. Although some collectors can parlay their interest in antiquities and others’ castoffs in seeing they may have cultural value to collectors in the future, and then might devote themselves to growing a hoard of such objects, but that is a very purposeful financial motivation for the most part. Many collections are done strictly for aesthetic considerations. The beauty of postage stamps as well as their meaning as a conveyance of human endeavors with a connection even to historical events makes the hobby come alive as representing a real connection to the wider world. The same is true of coins, where one can ponder the many hands those items have passed through over time and what has transpired or befallen people as a consequence of purchases and investments made. There is a story there and people are tuning into the energy of the objects as much as anything else from an enjoyment of their surface characteristics that may have some aesthetic value. This is not consciously perceived but an unconscious appreciation there is a greater meaning in the objects being acquired and this, too, is in harmony with the soul purpose of being part of the human collective—the human family.