Post 01

She is a cup set with lovely floral design around the edge of the cup and the plate. Two kinds of heart shape patterns wrap around the flowers with a golden paint lining the edges, adding more of the gorgeousness and nobility on her appearance. She doesn’t know where she is made, but according to the design on her she strongly believes that she is from England, a noble land which bone china is famous of. There is no doubt that she is proud of herself and often looks down on the mugs, which were store in the same drawer with her. It is not until one day she finds herself being placed randomly with other cups and plates in a thrift shop that she realizes she is abandoned. More sadly even, she is abandoned easily because she is merely a counterfeit made in China. But she soon recovers and waits eagerly for her next master to come. Day after day, people come and go. Many of them pick her up with admiration but put her back when they find out where she comes from. When she slowly loses hope, a young girl finally brought her home. The girl washes the dust away and places the cup set with all her other collection. The cup asks the girl why she chooses her. The girl replies, “Because you remind me of my grandmother.”

“The point I wish to emphasize is that our dependence on objects is not only physical but also, more important, psychological. Most of the things we make these days do not make life better in any material sense but instead serve to stabilize and order the mind (Csikszentmihalyi 22)." 

Work Cited

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. "Why We Need Things." History from Things: Essays on Material Culture. Ed. Steven Lubar and David Kingery. Smithsonian Institution Press. Print.