For the friend who requested a new blog post.

I like old things.

I know the trend right now is to be, like, SO totally vintage, but I am talking about more than the trend of old-fashioned wedding dresses.  I'm talking about class.  I feel like it just doesn't exist anymore.  I like it so much that only two things would stop me from hopping in a time machine and traveling back in time to find it: 1. The fact that time machines do not exist. Shucks. 2. Women's equality.  That is one thing I like about modern society.

Other than that, I would happily go back in time and live.  Almost everything about me is old-fashioned: my values are certainly old-fashioned and are all the better for it; my religiousness is old-fashioned, and again, I'm all the better for it; and, most of all, there are small elements of old society that I absolutely pine for.  For instance,

I would wear a dress every day of the week if I could.  In fact, I have tried, but then people always ask, "Why are you all dressed up?" and when I say, "Oh, just because," people think I'm slightly crazy.  I'll probably sound like an 80-year-old woman for saying this, but it is an utter shame that nowadays it's more acceptable and draws less undue attention when a girl wears sweats around than when a girl wears a dress.  What a shame!

I'm predisposed to like old music much faster than new music.  It takes a lot for me to warm up to "modern" music--I have to let a lot of the 20th century additions to music grow on me, like computer add-ins and techno beats and screaming voices (And the screaming voices will just never grow on me. Sorry).  Just give me a single instrument (or two or three) and a strong voice on top, and I am happy. I think it's for this reason that I  have never been good at keeping up with modern music.  I do what I can, and I like to think I have a somewhat "cool" collection of songs on my iPod, but it takes a really big effort on my part.  If I had it my way, I would listen to classical, blues, and Frank Sinatra all the time.  (Okay, probably not all the time, but a lot.)

In addition to all of that, here are some other reasons I'd prefer the past to the present.

I would rather writer letters than send text-messages.

I would rather read books than watch TV.

I would rather go to a play than go to a movie.

I like reading poetry.  I would like to be able to write it, too.

I would rather know how to play the piano and speak French than have the ability to work Photoshop or InDesign.

I would rather have a small group of real friends than a collection of 600 on facebook.

I would rather be pasty white than leathery tan.

I would rather take a parasol and sit in the sun than sunbathe. (I'm weird, I know.)

AND, there is just a small collection of reasons I would love to go back in time.  But in actuality, I'm grateful for 2010.  I just wish I could make a few changes and add a little more class to the world.