Collection Or Obsession??? I've Had Myself An Epiphany

Hello Fellow WFigs Members...

I was going through my figure collection today (I collected only Mattel's, hence the reason I've created this thread on the Mattel board - Mods: feel free to move it if you deem that there is a more appropriate section) and had myself a good old fashioned epiphany. Sitting on my bedroom floor, with all my wrestling figures splayed out around me it just dawned on me.

I think I'm obsessed. It wasn't so much the amount of figures I have. There's plenty of people on this board who have collection far greater than the one that lay before me now. This new realization slammed into me hardest when I was looking at the newest additions to my collection, the JR BAF set. I had just acquired them this past Friday at my local Toys R Us and had finally opened them just minutes before. That's when it hit me. Like a Mack truck doing seventy-five on a freeway it smashed me like a common bug on it's windshield... I wasn't excited at all to hold those figures in my hand. Even the completed Jim Ross brought me no thrill as I toyed with his joints, bending and flexing them every which way. These were figures I was eagerly anticipating since prototype pictures were first leaked. These were figures I had been agonizing over finding, checking my local Toys R Us WWE isle at least once a week since February. And yet, I felt nothing. No thrill. No excitement. No joy. Just nothing. Oh sure, I was elated, down right pleased as the fruitiest fruit punch, to finally see them hanging on the pegs last Friday afternoon. I was even happy to bring them home and set them in my room, anticipating the joy of breaking those boxes open and putting five awesome new figures on my shelf (I had recently rearranged things and had yet to put any of the figures on shelves). But there was no joy upon opening them. In fact, I was met with an odd sense of semi-disappointment.

This was a very weird feeling for me and as I looked over the rest of my figures it dawned on my that I had become crazed about acquiring many of them. Checking Ringside Collectibles, Amazon, and eBay multiple times a day in hopes that that right one would pop up. Briskly ambling towards the WWE section in Walmart, Toys R Us, and Target every chance I'd get. Buying figures I didn't really want at times. Spending more than I could afford at others (many others). And allowing the idea of new figures infest my day's thoughts to an alarming degree. In short, I had become obsessed with these plastic depictions of my favorite superstar of today and yesteryears.

Personally, I've decided I am going to sell most my collection and instead, focus on only a select few of my favorites. Mainly flashbacks of superstars who hold a special place in memories from days long gone. I shall let exclusive nostalgia rule from hence forth. This was an easy decision to make in light of my recent epiphany. Add in the rising the fact that my budget simply doesn't allow me to keep up with new releases as I'd like to and it became and even easier choice to make. Perhaps one day I will get back into heavy collecting again, but for now, I feel it's better that I take several steps back and purge myself of the objects of my obsession.

This whole scenario does leave me to wonder though...

Has any one else on this board felt the same way? has anyone else decided, for whatever reason, to dramatically reduce their own collections?

I am curious as to whether I am alone in my self-inflicted insanity... Sound off below.