My love of old movies helped shape me

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From the time I was a child, I was always kind of an old soul liking things that were generations before me. I think it started with watching old movies with my dad. I remember just being so drawn into a world so unlike the one I was growing up in. I still liked movies and shows from my own generation but there was something special about this world that existed before me. I think my love of history actually started with old movies. It was a love that so few people my own age shared with me. I always had to talk to people much older than myself about my love of old movies and shows. My sense of humor shaped itself around Bob Hope and Lucille Ball. At the age of eight, I had seen every episode of "I Love Lucy" several times over. The music I listened to came from those movies. I listened to The Andrews Sisters, Doris Day, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Perry Como. I also listened to The Beatles, Johnny Cash, and Conway Twitty. As I got older I found myself listening to everything new and old. I listen to about every genre under the sun. Growing up I often found myself talking to my parents and their friends about movies and television shows that I couldn't talk to my friends about. I now joke that I had to go and create a whole human to watch old movies with. My son and I get laughing so hard watching old movies and TV shows. We forced my husband to watch a movie with us last night and my son asked how my husband liked it and I told him his dad said it was ok. He goes "Just OK?! What is wrong with him?" I love that my son and I are able to share this love together. I love that he laughs with me at so many of the jokes that are often over other people's heads. I have to explain some of the jokes to him but he usually laughs once he understands. I was watching a skit from the Dean Martin show the other day where the joke went something like this "A construction worker fell 12 feet and landed on the ground below him and I ran out to check on him and asked him what happened and he looked at me and goes don't ask me I just got here" I laughed and I know it was corny but I still found it funny. I have always had a pretty decent sense of humor. It's that sense of humor that has kept me going in the darkest of times. My love of comedy started at a young age probably along with my love of I Love Lucy. The ability to laugh and not take life so seriously all the time is sometimes an underrated skill a lot of people don't possess. I know so many people who take everything so personally and get offended easily. Life is short. I refuse to spend so much time getting worked up and offended over everything. Old movies have shaped so much of my personality and interests and they play such a big part of my childhood. The 50s is probably my favorite decade followed by the 90s since that's the decade I actually grew up in and I did enjoy my childhood because as much as I loved old movies I still loved a lot of the stuff that was newer during my childhood. I imagine if I didn't share "normal" interests with my peers growing up I may not have had friends. I love that I was able to connect to older generations and my own generation. My parents loved asking me questions about movies and TV shows to impress their friends. It was such a random and useless skill but it seemed to fascinate my parents friends that my parents then eight year old could practically quote I Love Lucy word for word. Watching movies has always been my escape from my own issues and I watch new and old movies and I find myself quoting a lot of movies. To this day my mom will call me and ask me the most random and vague questions about movies and somehow I can usually guess what she's talking about. I'm also typically first pick for teams for trivia, which is a far cry from the last pick in PE during my school years. I know a ton of useless trivia depending on what it is. I love history, geography, movies, and music. I know a bunch of useless knowledge that during any other time does nothing for me but when we play trivia games it has come in handy. Don't get me wrong I've gotten a lot of questions I couldn't answer but I still usually get more questions right than a lot of people on my team. I love learning new things. I learned a lot of the things I know from you guessed it old movies. I will always be grateful to my dad for watching old movies when I was a kid which is what got me hooked. I have since surpassed most of the knowledge he knew about them and can rattle off more facts than he can. I am glad I can pass down my love for old movies to my own child and I hope one day he'll have kids he can pass that love down to.