Have you ever noticed, nothing's quite as good as the original?

Today, As i came home from my abdominal ultrasound appointment, I saw a newer volklswagon beetle getting off the interstate.  it was bright yellow, and a little grey haired woman was driving it and on the bottom of the door it said in black lettering 'Beetle".  At first i thought nothing of it, until i read the word beetle.  It was then it struck me, thats not a beetle, thats the modern bug, Thats when it hit me.  Nothing, is ever quite as good as the original.

the nostalgia that was invoked thinking about the original beetle will never, be able to be invoked by that 2000s era bug.  Cover bands, while good, are not as good as the original.  Even Journey, with their newish lead singer, as good as he is... is not, steve perry. I imagine this holds true most of the time, but I bet there are some times that the newest version is way way better than the original, but id wager that depends on what you're after.  Performance for instance.  The new corvette is hands down better in every form of performance than the original, but does it invoke the nostalgia and class of the original? of course not. it cant.  Its too new for one. 

ahwell.. just a random thought while driving.  ponder it if you'd like.


p.s.  Ultrasound went well, other than the positions and pressure she had to apply or have me in hurt my back, and im hurting a good bit right now.