Friday, January 21, 2011

Do You Smell That? That's the Bittersweet Smell of Nostalgia...

So, I'm a firm believer that everybody over the age of  16, in one way or another, lives their life in search of the perfect nostalgic moment. We all desire to relive those happy memories from our childhood when we didn't have any responsibilities, financial obligations, or appearances to keep up.  You know the bittersweet desire to achieve a resemblance of the past resides within all of us.  But what does yours look like?  What is your perfect nostalgic moment?

Mine?. . .That's easy.

My perfect nostalgic moment actually takes a full 24 hours to complete.  It consists of me waking up to go to Bible Study and then from there, spending my morning at the First Tee golf course in Little Rock, AR with my bro, Jim Stallings. He and I tear up the course from the back tees and enjoy a Pepsi Blue in the club house.  From there, we go to the Rave theater and watch a crappy movie with Chris Keathley, MST3K it, and then grab some Wendys for lunch. By this time in the day, we'll already be making jokes about all of our home schooled friends.  In my perfect nostalgic scenario, we would run into a few of the particularly frustrating ones and have some fun messing with them on our way to hike up Pinnacle - The glorified hill of central Arkansas.  After Pinnacle, we'd be very hungry again, so I'd go and snag some free pizzas from Little Caesars out in Maumelle, because I am still the reigning Caesar Pope(Long story, please don't try to follow all the inside jokes).  We'd eat the pizza while riding around in Chris' 4-banger (RIP) listening to some Dashboard, Jimmy, and the greatest song in the world. Somewhere along the way, Jeff and David would find us, which would be odd because we didn't tell Jeff where we were going to be.  With the night still young and the sun about to set, we would gather together to play some Halo.  After a couple games, we'd decide to pop in a movie, in this case, Mystery Men, and out of nowhere, Ben would show up. We'd quote the entire movie together and discuss why Jim doesn't like it, and why he'd rather be watching Gladiator.  After the movie, we'd hop on the computer and get some music going - probably something by Incubus - Chris would introduce us to some fan films, and we'd all discuss whatever current script or fad we're all working on.  After all of this, there's only one thing left for us to do...Swap some Man Stories, which we would later dub, "Man Talks" since we never actually had stories and it was all just blind conjecture into our potential love lives.  Oh and in the morning...you know that I'd wake up before Chris, and just after Jim sneaked out, to make everyone waffles...

This is my nostalgic moment...Tell me yours.
-Matt

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