| cture do you form in your mind when you think | | | | hard-to-catch fish. |
| about a trophy room? Many would think of huge | | | | Not everybody hunts or fishes, but that does not |
| rooms that once showcased the grandeur and | | | | mean that they would not maintain a trophy |
| wealth of kings of past centuries. The history | | | | room. You would very rarely find a family or |
| books and museums are full of game trophies and | | | | institution that does not have this special place |
| amazingly expensive artifacts that had once been | | | | where they display the recognition of their |
| part of these rooms. | | | | achievements. This could be a small corner, a wall |
| Today however, with hunting banned, the rooms | | | | or just a trophy case, but it would definitely be |
| dedicated for trophies are no longer filled with | | | | there because this is the place that proves your |
| stuffed majestic animals; they now contain fishing | | | | excellence in your field. |
| trophies or sports trophies. Though the scale has | | | | The meaning that the trophy room had for kings |
| been reduced drastically, the meaning has been | | | | and that which you experience today has changed |
| carried over through generations: it projects the | | | | a little. What was once meant to showcase raw |
| owner's power and ability to excel. | | | | strength and obscene wealth is now used to |
| There is something very primitive in men that | | | | celebrate one's inner talents. This room or corner |
| pushes them to test their strength and cunning | | | | is created and maintained to reinforce the fact |
| against the most dangerous of animals. The more | | | | that everybody is the best sometimes, |
| challenging the task; the more thrilling the high that | | | | somewhere, somehow. Each award or trophy |
| it gives. Fishing has been a favorite pastime for | | | | that is proudly displayed in the trophy case is |
| men from time immortal and as fishing gradually | | | | proof that you can be the best; and this is the |
| replaced hunting, the trophies changed from those | | | | meaning of this room today. |
| of ferocious tigers and lions, to huge and | | | | |