http://greengabbro.net/2004/12/07/old-enough-to-buy-my-own-candy/ rock out to the apparatus Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:35:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://greengabbro.net/2004/12/07/old-enough-to-buy-my-own-candy/#comment-1505 yami Wed, 08 Dec 2004 17:23:00 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2004/12/07/old-enough-to-buy-my-own-candy/#comment-1505 Oh, don’t be ashamed, Francis! It was an old post by the time I got there. I’m not sure nostalgia is a prerequisite for sentimentality, though it surely helps. I’m thinking of the kind of sentimentality required by the latest round of Hallmark commercials (person sees a piece of kitsch, gets all teary-eyed thinking about how someone will react to an unexpected gift, and walks out of the store with like a billion bags of godawful crap and a goofy grin) - a kind of disproportionate emotional investment in objects and ritual. Which seems like the sort of thing one divests oneself of as a teenager, only so it can eventually creep back into your adult life. Oh, don’t be ashamed, Francis! It was an old post by the time I got there.
I’m not sure nostalgia is a prerequisite for sentimentality, though it surely helps. I’m thinking of the kind of sentimentality required by the latest round of Hallmark commercials (person sees a piece of kitsch, gets all teary-eyed thinking about how someone will react to an unexpected gift, and walks out of the store with like a billion bags of godawful crap and a goofy grin) - a kind of disproportionate emotional investment in objects and ritual. Which seems like the sort of thing one divests oneself of as a teenager, only so it can eventually creep back into your adult life.

]]> http://greengabbro.net/2004/12/07/old-enough-to-buy-my-own-candy/#comment-1504 francis s. Wed, 08 Dec 2004 16:51:00 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2004/12/07/old-enough-to-buy-my-own-candy/#comment-1504 I’m ashamed that I didn’t answer. I don’t think one can put an exact date on when it is possible to be sentimental about something. Except that five is probably too young: You are too busy experiencing things for the first time still to feel nostalgia for the past. What do you think? I’m ashamed that I didn’t answer.
I don’t think one can put an exact date on when it is possible to be sentimental about something. Except that five is probably too young: You are too busy experiencing things for the first time still to feel nostalgia for the past.
What do you think?

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