Sorry but I'm not sorry (design hording)

I've been feeling some negative vibes from this lately and whether or not anyone is actually getting irritated with me, I figure it doesn't hurt to put this out there again

It's literally not possible to please everyone unless you're not alive, and even then you'd probably have people upset in some way over your death, so you would have to have not existed at all. I guess even then you're not technically 'pleasing' everyone at that point, you're not doing anything at all to them.


I was just thinking, gosh I love buying designs, especially closed species. Especially the ones made by my friends. Even if I don't have the time to draw or write for every single one of them, that doesn't mean they are being wasted. The reason I get ahold of designs like I do is usually because I see the potential for their character, for their story and personality, for them to take me on an adventure whether it's drawn on paper, typed up, or simply daydreamed while I work and relax. Sometimes they don't always live up to the potential I'd seen in them, so sometimes I trade them away. I also notice I buy more designs from and/or by friends, I'm not sure if it's because there's a stronger emotional connection to the designs at that point or if I just happen to make friends with people who share the same interests as I do. I do know that I find myself buying a lot of designs from my friends because I know that the money is going to support them. 

but where I'm going with this is like, even though I'm buying these designs for good reasons, I know that just by having the amount of designs that I have, I've already made enemies. People get so, so mad at people for having something they want but don't have, especially when a person has a LOT of what they want but don't have. So because I enjoy obtaining particular designs for their potential to become very fun characters to play with, and because I want to support artists I highly enjoy and my friends who happen to be artists, I end up with multiple characters from a single species a lot of the time. I know this can piss a lot of people off. 

I suppose I could put the happiness of strangers who are less fortunate then I above me and my friend's happiness... but why would I? Out of those two options, who's happiness would you rather aim for: a stranger's, or your own/your friends happiness? I'd rather make my friends happy then anyone else, so I'm sorry if you're jealous that I have several of something you want badly and for some reason you fancy yourself as more deserving when you don't even know me, but that's fine. It's fine to feel jealousy, it's natural (though it can be really harmful to you when it's in high amounts, be careful), but try not to let it affect how you treat other people.



And of course it's different when it's a person starving feeling jealous over a very plump rich person, but we're not talking about life in general, we're talking about freaking designs which are a luxury in themselves for crying out loud. So please don't compare these situations to each other to justify why it'd be unfair for someone to have more designs, because that's really stretching it.