Same thing with experiences. We collect travel destinations like we are checking boxes on some cosmic to-do list. Forty countries before forty. Every national park. Every Instagram-famous café. We move so fast trying to acquire the experience that we never actually have it. A curator would slow down. Would spend three days in one museum instead of... See more

Collectors are hedging their bets. Keeping options open. Avoiding commitment because what if something better comes along. Curators make choices. They build around a vision. They understand that committing to one thing means letting go of another and that is not a loss. That is how meaning gets made.

The most beautiful museums in the world are not the biggest ones. They are the ones where someone cared enough to be selective. To have a vision. To understand that curation is an act of love and restraint and deep intentionality.

Your life deserves that same care. Stop collecting. Start curating.