Let me take you step by step.
Prologue - You have a decent camera, and you meet a friend, who is awesome with his point and shoot. You learn, and you understand your p&s even better. That's where all the majority is. If you are still here, you better give yourself a pat, because this isn't a gas condition.
Chapter 1 - Oh you have researched the web, and you've seen all the other people with amazing stuff, out of DSLRs. You just gotta have one. I need more control over my camera, and P&S is just not giving me what I want. I'll just buy a really cheap DSLR and the kit lens is all I need.
Chapter 2 - Oh! You can make money with your photography as a hobby, with stock photography. I guess I need to invest a little bit to buy a macro lens. Then I can really make some money
Chapter 3 - OMG! This kit lens SUCKS. I can't even zoom to an object outside my room. I need a zoom lens. Like something that can cover from a wide angle till a telephoto.
Chapter 4 - Man, I get too much camera shake in low light situations. I need a tripod. Everyone has a tripod, and I can afford it. Its an awesome thing to have in your gear right. I'll buy a tripod and fix this low light situation.
Chapter 5 - Okay, I can't take my tripod everywhere. At gatherings, everyone stares at me. Also, since its a zoom lens, the aperture is not good enough to take images in low light. I need to get a FLASH. The pop up is so uncontrollable. I need Flash that I can bounce.
Chapter 6 - Okay, so this website says that the prime lens are the sharpest, and that website says that a prime have better glass too. I should have at least one prime in my gear right?
Chapter 7 - I have the prime, but the I use the zoom more often. I need to invest in a good sharp zoom lens, with a wider aperture.
Chapter 8 - Man, I can't work with this small camera body. I need a better one, to fit perfectly with these set of expensive lens I have.
and it goes on....
Luckily for me, I woke up from this condition. Heres the good part of waking up after possessing this much gear. It gives me a better perspective. I see them as tools. I have a bigger toolbox, which means that I have less restrictions to certain photography genres. It was just recently that I had purchased a Zack Arias workshop, and that workshop really put all my photography into perspective. I knew some stuff, and I knew how to do it, but I didn't know WHY? I didn't know the technical. Now I do, and gives me a better and clear picture of what and where it is that I want to end up.
Also, an amazing quote from Edward Weston "...few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them..." I have applied this theory for so long in terms with Money, being a business entrepreneur, that don't work for money, but let the money work for you, and I just couldn't see and think about applying the theory elsewhere.
Finally, You know its like a little girl saying, I want to grow up and live in a Palace, and if she seriously worked towards it, gradually, everyday she would add detail to that. Initially, the vision in her head would just be an outline of a palace, and then slowly, she would envision, how the gates would look, how the windows would look, how her room would look, how many trees the palace would have and so on till she reaches there.
Everyone envisions where they want to end up, but it is the journey which gives the final shape ,the detail and the perfection to their vision. (Wow, I should copyright that) haha!
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