Ever have one of those fun times with a friend/date/lover/whatever, and enjoy yourself so much that you just want to keep doing that same thing every day, but that would be like an imposition. Sorta like how you are when you get a chance to meet and hang out with someone famous, where you wish you could do things like that all the time but it's obviously not going to happen (or, if it is, you can't act all fanboyish and such, but have to be patient and let it take its course).
Or, to put it in kid terms, it's like finding a half-gallon of chocolate milk... if you really want to enjoy it, you have to drink it only occasionally, so you savor every drop of it ... if you keep pounding down glasses full of it, you'll only enjoy it for a couple minutes, and then spend the rest of your childhood pining for the chocolate milk you could have had.
There's lots of things in life like that, and I'm trying really hard to savor the chocolate milk, because it's really delicious, and I want it to last.
Mmmm.... Chocolate milk.
Yum. :-)
So are you dating a black chick?
LOL, you're funny, Dan. :-) No, not dating a black chick. I was trying to put it in kid terms ya big dork, and what do kids like to drink besides chocolate milk? OK, maybe *you* liked Jack Daniels as a kid, but the ordinary ones .... ;-)
I have the same thing with spaghetti. I had a plate once when I was very young that was awsome, the best I ever tasted (or at least my memory tells me) and I've spent time ever since searching for the right combination of everything to duplicate that experience.
What were we talking about again?
That reminds me of Gnocchi. My best bud in HS's mom was a great italian cook. She'd make authentic meals every night. The Gnocchi she made was out of this world. Few Italian places serve it, so whenever I see on a menu (maybe once every 5 years) I have to get it. And it's never been so good as I remember.
Of course, that has less to do with the conservation of quailty experiances as it does an overly romantic perspective of the past.