I ran across this meme on Facebook the other day, and it seemed too good not to share.
Some would take issue with the specifics stated for one or more of these six steps. Nonetheless, the progression is reasonably apt.
Still, I sometimes suspect that I started out on step one and simply raced through the others to get to step six.
As proof, here's a quick photo of a good portion of my heraldic library. (It extends out of frame both to the left and the right, plus there are some other heraldic periodicals, etc. tucked away in another part of the room entirely.)
It's not a problem. Truly, I could stop anytime. And I'm going to. Very soon. Any day now. Well, maybe I'll wait until after I receive that one book that I pre-ordered. No, wait, there's that two-volume set I've been looking at getting for a while. After that. Then I'll quit. No, really.
Okay, maybe not.