JanCPF,
It's like this see.......it's an illness, a disease. Like gambling, smoking, drinking......it's both physical and mental. First it starts out small, maybe a photon light you got and put on your keychain....you find yourself strangely drawn to it, attracted to it like a moth to a flame. You start Googling about lights and find some information. Your curiosity grows, you start reading more and more about led's and incandecents and the "mod" stuff. You start to realize that there is so much more than mag illumination tools. You may even go and get a few other lights....thinking all the while, "Hey, I can stop any time I want to. I don't have a problem."
And now, you find CandlePower forums (insert sinister organ music here)....you are now trapped. Trapped in a world hidden from most, until darkness falls. You start longing for night time, keeping an eye on the weather reports to know exactly when sundown is. Praying for stormy weather for power outages. Summer is the worst, the days seem to last forever, oh the agony. You find yourself seeking the dark places....closets, basements, anything to get your fix of turning on your EDC (yes, our addiction even has it's own language). You start to worry.....what if your EDC fails.....of course, now you need a backup. But we all know, that is not enough...you need batteries, maybe spare bulbs too! You start to get paranoid, you need to stash lights everywhere because you just never know when a sudden "dark" attack might befall you and your loved ones. The loved ones, the ones who depend on you.....depend on you for light. They need lights, how can you say you truly love them if they are without lights? You try to get them to see the rationale, the logic in having lights. At first, they are hesistant and fail to see your logic. The poor misguided fools...they will be truly doomed if you don't act...and act quickly you must. A photon.....a harmless little photon light. And so it begins again, another victim....another cycle begins. Dammit....where will it stop?
Or, maybe it's just kind of cool.
Mike
