Ahhhh.  The Good Old Days.

I long for the days of old in a lot of ways.

TV, for instance.  Every time I flip on the television, and I see some other version of Dancing with the Bachelor in American Idol Swap….  I long for The Carol Burnett Show, or Mary Tyler Moore.  I want to watch All In The Family or M*A*S*H.  I would love to see an episode of Bewitched, or even The Muensters.  Lucille Ball… where the heck are you?

Yes, that is just one way I miss the yesteryear.

I want the good old fashioned peanut butter and jelly sandwich on Wonder Bread, all smooshed up in a little baggie… because you crammed the lunch bag into your school desk, under your math book… along with your little stash of animal crackers… or Fritos.  Yep.

Ohhhhh…..  Typewriters.  Gas Station Attendants.   Mailboxes on street corners.  The pink slime on McDonald’s Hamburgers.

Telephone cords that stretched all the way across the entire kitchen.

Elmer’s Glue…. for everything.

And then there were the old computers… the kind where you had to summon two of your co-workers when the thing froze up.  The three of you had to simultaneously stand on the Control + Alt + Delete keys to get it going again.

Yesssirrrreeee.  Those were the days, my friend.  Those were the days.

But.   As they say.  The past is behind us.   Like it, or not.  There’s no turning back the hands of time.  And here we are.  Right here.  Right now.

I think it is better to like it…. than to not.

“What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.” – Author Unknown