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Do you think you're going to age out of Joes?
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04-28-2014, 04:09 PM
SmokeBellew
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I already have aged out, in many ways. I don't play with toys anymore, and I've long since stopped building up stories in my head about toys. That stuff ended somewhere around age 9 or 10. I actually remember realizing what happened back then and trying to force myself to come up with some G.I. Joe adventure for my figures, but I wasn't able to sustain it. My mind kept wondering into tangents on other, non-toy related, topics. It sucked then and it sucks now.
When I first got into collecting this shit as an adult, I approached it as an adult...which damn-near ruined it for me. I kept finding myself trying to not only rationalize how a Rattler's VTOL-system would be feasible in "real life", and other such crap, but I was also trying to explain why I was collecting kid's toys in the first place. Eventually I just decided there wasn't any deeper reason for it and there didn't need to be. I also decided to quit trying to force my adult head into it.
G.I. Joe isn't my life. Matter of fact, it isn't even a large part of it. It's a pleasant diversion for me. I know I'll never be able to be a kid again and enjoy these toys like I once did. There's a part of me that also knows that, by all rights, it belongs firmly in my past, but I'm also glad to be able to keep a piece of it here with me right now. I can't see any harm in it. If anything, it helps me stay connected with a certain innocence...it keeps the bitter cynic within me at bay.
Truthfully, this is an organic thing. Most of us quit toys as children around the same age range as a matter of course. For most, it wasn't a conscious decision, you just stopped playing with them. Same goes as adults, I suspect. One day you'll be done with your collection. Whether that means you get rid of them all or whatever is up to you.
I know this much, when the time comes I suddenly realize I've gone days or months without looking at, or thinking about, these toys, that's when I quit, because it'll mean I've already quit actively collecting.
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