I use Pinterest for everything. Book collections, trips

In the words of Ben Silbermann, we hear not merely the musings of a creator, but the unveiling of a truth about human longing: “I use Pinterest for everything. Book collections, trips, hobbies. It's all there. I planned my wedding on it. When I had a kid, I planned all his stuff on it. So it was nice to discover that I wasn't the only one.” His words reveal how tools of imagination and order become companions in life’s greatest journeys—marriage, parenthood, and the pursuit of passions.

The heart of this saying is not about a platform alone, but about the human need to gather and preserve visions. Just as the ancients etched on tablets their prayers, or monks illuminated manuscripts to keep wisdom alive, so too do modern souls collect images and plans, binding their hopes into a single place. For in gathering, we make sense of the vastness of possibility, and in arranging, we prepare the path ahead.

It is telling that he speaks of his wedding and his child—moments when life shifts from self to union, from union to legacy. These are not ordinary events, but sacred thresholds. To plan them with care is to honor their weight. Just as a general maps the battlefield before marching, or as an architect sketches a temple before raising stone, so too does the modern dreamer map their life with images and inspirations, ensuring that memory and vision walk hand in hand.

History recalls the Library of Alexandria, where the knowledge of the world was gathered to light the way for future generations. Pinterest, though humbler in form, mirrors this impulse: the desire to collect, to preserve, to prepare. Silbermann’s wonder that he “wasn’t the only one” reminds us that this impulse is not his alone but shared by many—the eternal human desire to see life not as chaos, but as a pattern we can shape.

Thus, let this teaching endure: life is vast, filled with crossroads and burdens. To face it without vision is to stumble; to face it with collected dreams is to stride with purpose. Collections, plans, and visions are not idle pastimes, but tools of endurance. And when one discovers that others walk the same path, gathering and shaping their lives with care, the soul finds comfort—for it learns that it is never alone in its longing to build order out of the infinite.