busted!

so, there has been something about someone that has been troubling me and i couldn't quite put my finger on it. this person is great, we get along, i enjoy spending time with them. still, there is something maddening about them.

i cracked their code this morning. i do this as well, so i am no one to fault them, but it's like they suddenly make a ton more sense. i have my secret decoder ring for them and i kind of feel compelled to tell them what i've figured out. but i can't, because no matter how well i put it, it sounds like an insult.

so, here it is. chances are if you are reading this, you are not that person (but maybe you are...)

you, dear friend, attempt to make things relevant and applicable to you that were most certainly NOT relevant or applicable to you. i can explain. everyone does this (oh, that song speaks to me, casablanca is timeless, diamonds are forever). but you, dear friend, you have the amazing ability to act as if time and space don't exist. that things that happened when you were 10 and were specifically culturally relevant to people 10 years older somehow meant the same thing to you AND had the same impact on you at that moment. but they can't have. i believe you apply things post facto. the relevance of a teen angst movie that was geared towards teens at the exact time of its release doesn't seem cute and a bit outdated but totally watchable. you claim that when you saw it at 7 it had the same meaning/message/relevance as it did for 17 year olds. and i'm sorry, but no one is that savvy. i can say i see movies now that were out when i was a kid and i get the message and enjoy it. but you'd argue that anything released/produced/created/whatever since your birth was totally digestible to you the moment it appeared. the only reason i find it maddening is that there is a generational ownership over certain pop culture icons. you can share, but you can't own. argh!

so there. i don't fault you for it. but you are so busted.