As a student I hoarded books. Later I sold or gave away most of those. I had to move too many times and I did not value great books that much as object. The ideas there could be bought again in new bodies or e-format. I still keep some valuable books. Valuable to me, not to the market in general;
Now... camera equipment is a money pit ;) A huge one.
What I have as assets are photos, especially those of things that will age or disappear. Some of the photos I discard as I become more critical, but others stay and have more value to me. Maybe one day - to the market as well;
I also gather some small samples of other people's art. Because I like it, not because I believe it will cost more in the future.
Collectibles like TCG cards may become assets. Or weigh me down.
Anyway, those are all items. They may all disappear in a flash.
Knowledge, ideas and experience, interpersonal relationships and ties, too... Those are real assets we have. And they are not eternal, too. nothing is.
Yes unless it is a tool of the trade :D
Perhaps the value is in what was discarded as it limits the run of what is left.
Nothing is eternal except the moment of now. The only thing that will continue, observed or not.
A shovel of the trade I have to use to dig myself out of the money pit first ;)
An interesting perspective. What is discarded in general.
If you think about Michelangelo carving David, what was removed revealed what was of value beneath. This is how I see much of life's questions, a removal of what is not the answer.