| | I have decided that perhaps I should start writing in this again. We'll see how long this actually lasts.
I have formulated a list of things that I find particularly charming in people as of late:
(1) I love when people sing and dance in their cars. There's
something completely refreshing about it, particularly when the music
is from the 90's. There's an entirely different connotation when
the person is dancing to 50 Cent's "Just a Lil Bit" (though the song is
a favorite of mine). Yes, I'm talking about the people who are
dancing and singing to Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" or to any song by the
Backstreet Boys. I love those people. They're so free and
uninhibited and completely awkward at the same time. I think it's
the juxtaposition of freedom and awkwardness that is truly charming
about the situation.
(2) I also love people who get dessert before they get their meals and
then munch on it as they wait for their food. It's their snack,
their appetizer. Of course, this can only be the case when one
goes up to order one's food at a counter of some kind and then receives
the dessert right there. I love that, too. They're doing
what we all secretly wish we can do, and what our parents told us we
could never do all while we were growing up- eating dessert before
meals. They're getting the same satisfaction I get when I have a
peace of cake for lunch and call it a mea, even though my mother would
probably be appalled at the lack of anything really organic in my diet.
(3) I also have decided that I love people who wear boots with
everything- cowboy boots, lace-up boots, any form of boots that in no
way match the style of the rest of the outfit. I love it all,
particularly if the boots are black and the outfit is lime green.
That's my favorite combination. It's charming and unexpected and
completely adorable, really. I could never do it, but I give
those credit who do.
(4) Finally, I love people who drive incredibly old cars and listen to
folk music. It's only the two together that possess such charm.
Individually, the two can be sweet but not always. In actuality,I have
become incredibly fond of folk music as of late. It's quite
quaint and simplistic and serves as a contrast to the emo music playing
upstairs at all hours of the night. The lyrics don't involve
teenagers whining about how their parents won't let them out of the
house or about how some girl doesn't give them the time of day.
It's sweet and meaningful and involves acoustic guitars (however, not
in the Howie Day acoustic guitar way). Old cars... I admire
people who drive old cars because they require work and love. You
have to talk to them to get them to run well, and I admire people who
talk to inanimate objects- particularly ones who name inanimate
objects. All things should have names. Names give them
personality.
One comes to embrace the unexpected at college- it becomes peculiar and charming and sweet in its own way.
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