nostalgia isn't what it used to be
Mar. 10th, 2003 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
larrisyes, I believe that in the course of a lifetime, we do outgrow certain things.
I remember the last time I played with my Zoids, for instance. no longer do they hold that fascination with me. plastic dinosaurs, on the other hand, can still entice me with their alluring personalities and intriguing magic from a childhood decades in the past.
and if I were a miniature gamer, I would probably have transferred some of this into an "adult" hobby. I mean, heck, even BadCop still collects comicbook action figurines.
but even if we wave farewell to old pastimes and objects with a certain amount of chagrin, I still believe that we don't outgrow people in the same way. once a connection is made, it is made to withstand the erosion of years and distance. and I cannot, with my heart or my mind, understand people who say otherwise.
because even if people do change in some ways, we never change that much.
I remember the last time I played with my Zoids, for instance. no longer do they hold that fascination with me. plastic dinosaurs, on the other hand, can still entice me with their alluring personalities and intriguing magic from a childhood decades in the past.
and if I were a miniature gamer, I would probably have transferred some of this into an "adult" hobby. I mean, heck, even BadCop still collects comicbook action figurines.
but even if we wave farewell to old pastimes and objects with a certain amount of chagrin, I still believe that we don't outgrow people in the same way. once a connection is made, it is made to withstand the erosion of years and distance. and I cannot, with my heart or my mind, understand people who say otherwise.
because even if people do change in some ways, we never change that much.
