Recently, many people on the Internet have been singing about stamps, saying that stamps are a printed pattern worth a few cents, and now you can print as much as you want, and collecting a piece of waste paper in the delusion that it will appreciate in value is simply a big joke. Seeing these words from netizens made me embarrassed, for fear that people around me would find out that I used to be a stamp collector and laugh at me.
Times have really changed. In the past, everyone was proud of stamp collecting, and every stamp collected was something worth showing off to the people around me, but now in the face of the decline of the philatelic industry, I am embarrassed to tell others that I have stamps in my hand. When I heard that many people were singing about stamps, I could only remain silent, after all, stamps are indeed not as popular as before, so I have no confidence to refute everyone's remarks.
I have been collecting philately since 1986, and it has not yet been filled. Most of them are foreign stamps, which are what everyone calls worthless flowers, and facts speak louder than words, I must admit. Nowadays, those high-score stamps, even rare stamps, have no market value, let alone my ordinary stamps.
This old philatelic album is full of a sense of age, it is not only a memory of the times, but also a fond memory of my philatelic career. As a philatelist, I only care about the process of collecting stamps, not about its future prospects. Philately is a hobby in itself, and if it is linked to money, it is not interesting.