Ribbons and newspapers

image by Ornamelle

Most of me thinks: Pretty! <3

A part of me thinks: Instead of reading our newspapers and recycling them, we now can read them, gift-wrap with them over and over again - providing one does not rip the wrapping paper when opening a present - until the said newspaper travels all over the world successfully. Then it can be labeled as World Traveler or something, and be sold for a incredibly large sum of money. And it would be framed and hung by the crazy collector who paid for it. Oh wait, but then there would be many of such newspapers, causing the price for them to drop. But I suppose it would be rare for newspaper to survive for so long, so that’s okay then. And those ‘failed’ World Travelers could be recycled. But then there would be people who’d try to pass off old crinkly newspapers as genuine World Travelers. And then there would be these experts, who would claim to be able to discern its genuineness. (Is that the correct term?) But more often than not, they would probably be in cahoots with the fakers. Then collectors would demand a proper certification for such experts, which means a special division in historian schools or something set up. And the rest of the world, minus the collectors and the experts and the people who manage to sell these prized newspapers, would wonder what has the world become to these days. Unless they get hold of one of those said newspapers and manage to sell them, and then they’d start praising this industry.

Another part of me thinks: I should stop thinking too much.