The Kingdom of Philtopia

Have you ever noticed that when you remember something from when you were a kid whether it was a place, movie, tv show, candy, place, thing, that you remember it so awesome and then when you revisit that situation again as an adult that it totally sucks?

That movie that you remember being so awesome

I must admit one of the greatest child hood memory squashers of my 20’s had to have been when I watched the never ending story as an adult. I remember this movie being so epic and the story being so amazing and then re watching it I found that it was exceptionally cheesy, the story was ridiculous and it ended with a child version of Say my name bitch! Falcor was still awesome though but aside from him it was a total disappointment and I have avoided re watching many child hood movies because of this one now.

Exceptions:

• Teenage mutant ninja turtles
• Transformers
• Goonies
• Muppet movies
• Old cartoon garfield movies

The old home town you remember being so awesome is actually a shithole

I remember my old town of Crystal beach with much fondness, the old park, my moms restaurant, my old friends that I wonder what happened to, the “general store” that we opened after the restaurant, the beach, the arcade near the beach where I beat double dragon arcade when I was young. Good times. One of my favorite memories is drawing a stop sign on my hand and going to the park and riding the Giant all afternoon. I then of course got in trouble for missing dinner but oh well. I still had a good time. Anyways, to the crushing moment! I for years have been going to Windmill Point park in Fort Erie and of course I went through the old town one day and drove by my old house and man, kids have some sugar coated memories. I didn’t live near the park so its not like its run down like that part of town this is just what it looks like all the time. Went by my old baby sitters and all over the place, not at all as I remembered.

Exceptions:

• Linos Pizza is still tasty
• Beach is still nice
• Palmwood is still there
• Someone still makes those awesome cinnamon suckers
• Ridgeway doesn’t suck
• Logan Berry still exists and is damn awesome.

Food that was great as a kid totally sucks now

Remember Zoodles? I do, I also remember all of my favourite cartoon shows had their own noodly tasty canned food too and I had to eat it! Well it sucks now! Zoodles tastes like there is little minute stones or something hard in the sauce that irritates me to no end not to mention the sauce is horrible. Grilled cheese used to be a favourite of mine but it is too greasy now which pisses me off and lets not even get started with sloppy joes. Getting old is crap!

Exception:

• I will still eat Chef Bouardee
• Logan berry is the best drink of all time and those who disagree suck.

I don’t remember this game looking like this…

Go back and play a video game you haven’t played in 5 or more years you’ll be like man I loved the way this game looked then it will start up and you will barf! I do not run into this too often because I am an old game junky and play oldass games all the time but if I don’t play the game for a long long time and go back to it I definitely notice. I notice this more with games made in the last 15 years. I expect only so much from 8 and 16 bit so I don’t get that affect from those games which are so dear to me but anything from 1995+ going back to it can have that negative affect!

In conclusion it would seem we look back at our life with rose coloured brains so be careful when you actually decide to revisit situations you are fond off as you may be faced with disappointment sometimes.