When it’s new, it’s pretty. There is so much to learn about it, and there is curiosity to see everything it can do. It’s shiny and full of excitement. It’s something to explore and keep your attention for a while.

Over time, you become bored, and you only care about the features that appeal to you—the ones that are useful to you, that bring you what you want and meet your needs. You don’t really care about the rest of it or any maintenance of the parts you don’t use. You can just let those go. You can let them break, shatter, and fall apart.

While this toy can do hundreds of things, some you may never have taken the time to learn about, you fixate on only the 3 or 4 that you care about. You let it loose its voice, since you didn’t care about what it could say and the sounds it could make. You stop taking care of it, so its no longer shiny and pretty. You focus on the bare minimum you need to do to ensure the few things you want will continue to work.

Eventually, the toy is just broken, shattered in some places, with very little value left to anyone but you, but even that value that is left is not enough for you, so you keep it stored in a dark closet until you need what still works for your own desires.

Leaving nothing left but a broken toy that no one else would want.