I am the voice of Christmas passed, what does that mean to you?

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I am watching Scrooge, very old version, 1938, Reginald Owen, black and white. The first visitor arrives, the ghost of Christmas past. It stirs up so many memories for me. Things and people I shall never see again. Happiness I will never feel again. I have joy but also sadness. I just wonder what it makes you think of?
 

jujube said:
I've been watching FX's Christmas Carol. A really, really, really "dark" version, depressing as heck. Well-acted, though.
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Even the old ones can be depressing. I just try to focus on the past christmas and what could be someday.....
 
Watching the Muppets Christmas Carol (with Michael Caine) has become a bit of a tradition with us, though I try not to get sentimental over it.

I don't remember much from my very early days. There was still some post war rationing in the UK, so I expect things were not as bright and jolly. It was good fun in later years with presents and decorations until I started to reject religion and look to the origins of the winter festivities.
Still, I do miss the 'innocence' of times past, although sometimes tainted by disappointment if I didn't get what I really wanted. Now, I don't really look forward to Christmas. Dickens didn't foresee the commercialisation and greed that it has become.
 
Not sure why, but I have virtually zero memories of childhood Christmas. And very few from when my children were small. And no, this is not a new thing that I need to worry about.

So, the voice of Christmas Past is null and void.
 
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It reminds me that Alstair Sims was the greatest Scrooge ever done. The two sections that I liked, was when Jacob Marley screams "Business! Mankind was my business! Their common welfare was my business!"

Then when Scrooge hears the last words from his sister he missed by leaving in anger. His sobbing was so believable. "Forgive me Fan! Forgive me! Forgive me! Ah ah ah ah ah"

I was misguided for so long. Still lessons were learned.
 
Paco Dennis said:
Lets see...that is 70 Christmases I have been around for. I will start when I was 7 so that is 63 Christmases. The first one when I was 7 was really great. I think I will stop there because a whole book could be written about the variety of life that was happening throughout all those years.
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Go ahead, write that book! I'm pretty sure it would be amazing!
 
How about The Ghost of Xmas Past as a mad cab driver from the movie, Scrooged?

 

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