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My brother’s scarves
My brother’s scarves
My brother collects scarves and not especially to wear them, I´ve never seen him wear one of his scarves, he only wears the ones that were made by my grandmother. Every scarf that he buys is from one football team and that’s part of why every scarf is special. He only hangs the scarves on the wall of his room although there is no more space anymore, all the walls are full of scarves or something else and my mom only let him hang the scarves in his room. Recently we went on a trip, just the both of us, and even that we didn’t have a lot of money he bought one scarf at least from every city we went, we could stay at a bad hostels and eat at McDonalds but cannot leave the city without the scarf.
At the end of the trip one backpack was almost full of scarves and now those scarves are not hanging and now some of his friends gave him some others. The scarves are not the only thing that my brother collects, he really likes to collect things, just like my mother, and they also share collections one example are the coins from all over the world, they but started that one like 10 years ago so it is pretty big by now and I don’t know who will stay with that one. In fact, I don’t know what will they do when the collections are complete, how can a scarves collection be complete and if somehow he feels it is complete, what happens next? I guess some people simply love collecting things. Adding another piece to a collection gives the right amount of satisfaction for any collector. The feeling of accomplishment is much, much greater when the collection is completed and also some people collect things that hold their interest. For example the scarves because my brother loves sports and specially soccer. Collections are also a good mental exercise I believed because it brings a lot of memories to the collector like the feeling when the collection was complete or some pieces could have one special meaning and many people feel they have a special bond with their collection and don’t understand why some other people no seem to appreciate it as much as they do, but at least for my brother there is my mom and same thing for my mom.
