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There are any number of things I miss from my younger days, not the least of them being staying up late at night to watch old movies, and the feeling that I had all the time in the world.
Neither of those things is the case any longer - I feel my mortality all too keenly at times, and when you turn the television on late at night there's little there but infomercials. You don't even get the comfort of test patterns all that much these days. Money must be made in any fashion they can make it, and if that means replacing old movies with infomercials, then so it shall be.
Sad, really, so much charm lost; but there is little I can do about the commercialisation of anything, except within my own home.
I like charm, that which has charm. It's a little difficult to describe what that term means, except by other terms that never quite fit the bill. I am charmed by the joyful, by reminiscence, by niceties, by wit that isn't maliciously directed, but most of all charm is a term of warmth to me. It's something that's a little more captivating than what one means when one talks of something like "comfort food", perhaps it's even a little romantic. Entranced, but not intoxicated?
Intoxicated... now there's something I haven't felt in a very long time. To be drunk on words, tone of voice, a person's style of being. I miss that too.