Life Story of a LEGO Lover: New Found Interest

Once upon a brick ago, there lived a seemingly innocent boy in a small town built on Southeast Asia's largest island. This town was conquered by ethnically similar townsfolk with a knack for not minding their own business. Such was the lifestyle when the only excitement residents could enjoy was the annual holiday sales.

As for this little boy, his surrounding was filled with such like-minded people as well. He would have joined their cult if it wasn't for the superhero that saved him. That superhero was LEGO. More accurately, it was DUPLO, a subdivision of LEGO catered towards kids below 5 years old. Kids have the habit of swallowing anything that they can put into their mouth, especially something as colourful as LEGO bricks. Thus, DUPLO was created as temporary replacement until kids move pass their Oral Stage.

Coming back to the little boy, for as young as he could remember, he always had these blocks called DUPLO. Back then, he didn't really know the name. All he knew was that he had this interlocking blocks along with a few animal characters which he could place on top of the blocks. He was happy with such a simple toy design. Eventually, DUPLO was switched to LEGO, the one with the smaller bricks but the fun was still there nonetheless. In his mind, he was building a plastic empire with his little animal friends. In his parents' mind, it was something they could occupy him while they were busying gossiping about other people's life.

In the next coming months, the boy was so fascinated with these bricks that a little green monster called Greed was growing inside him. He wanted more. He wanted to expand his empire and there weren't enough resources. Unfortunately, the complexity of these interlocking bricks in the small town was too much for the minds of the locals to bear. Hence, it was slightly impossible for the boy to find these goodies in the town. He relied on his caretaker - his father - to savage these rare plastic goodies.

Of course, the father had to travel to this foreign land to find these plastic treasures. Sometimes he would come home with a handful of these plastic bricks and sometimes he would come home empty handed. Initially, the Greed inside the boy was in its infancy. So, the empty handedness didn't really bother him. However, as the collection piled up, the Greed transformed into a tiny gremlin, fed by constant wanting and needing.The boy would find himself shouting, sulking and crying for in his mind, he had the image of an uncaring father. It was one of those obnoxious moments which no rational adults wanted to recall.

While the introduction of DUPLO/LEGO brought creativity and imagination to this little boy, it inadvertently set him on a path to a world of materialism and avarice. Nonetheless, the good virtue of playing these interlocking bricks would eventually develop in this boy but whether he was faithful to the same interlocking bricks is another story for another post.