I tend to keep the instruments, even the ones I build to sell. Each one has a character that only it can fulfill. Each one is a friend. I may not see a friend for a long time, but I hate to let them go once and for all. However, I know from other pursuits that we like to define ourselves and remember who we are by what we have. "I am the person who...", and I have the stuff that proves it. Yet, in the end, I am not the person who. That was my ego, my "I, me, mine". That is not the real me. That is why my stuff has not much value to anyone else, because it usually doesn't define who they think they are. So, I have been that person who has a reputation for playing electric music. Long ago. I have kept the stuff even though it hasn't been out of the closet in 12 years, because I might use it again for a reunion. Sure. But I know that was me - just a memory now, and it is a bit of an anchor on who I am becoming.
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