The Things of Old

People talk about the 'good old days' as the present gets darker.  I remember the old days being pretty tough.  Very much like the present.  Maybe they are good now because we survived them.  We have a saying were I am from which I will loosely translate - you are good once you are dead.  No one talks smack at our funerals.  I attended one were the preacher was very honest and said even if someone stole chickens most of their adult life, when they die, everyone has nothing but praise for them.  Why is that?  The good days and things of old.


I watched Voltron again.  I watched it first when I was a child.  It was amazing then.  I am sure I was very upset on days I had to miss it for one reason or another.  As an aside, I know now there is magic involved, but I always wondered about the dimensions of Voltron, and how for instance the lions that form the arms became cylindrical all of a sudden.  But all that, fascinating as it may be is besides the point.  Watching Voltron now, I asked myself why I found it so great then.  The sounds of the lasers annoy me. The dialogue is predictable, the characters repeat themselves and each other a lot.  What are turbo thrusters? Why does he just stand there after they are turned on?  "Dynotherms connected! Infracells up!" What is all this stuff?  
The delivery is lacking, and that kills an already mediocre cliche story.


See, some things are never as good as the first time.  After time and context shift the shiny treasures of old are now, well - cheesy.  When life is rough I too try to recreate that old 'innocence' and the pacific place it existed.  Its all rubbish, because if one reads these musements, you will find that I am always surrounded by noise.  What innocence?  I was punished every other day, that is not a record of innocence.  The things of old are not always rediscovered treasures, sometimes they are just old cheese.  It just got harder and maybe less smelly.


Marginal utility will always decrease, the things that where will never be as they where the first time.  Voltron was amazing then, now he is just, "Ehh."