Lmao, don't talk to me about flashlights and dog walking.
You don't need them unless you're in the woods. On the paths and fields it never gets dark enough to need one, we're not that rural.
There's always more than enough background scatter to see by. If you let your night vision develop.
On the rare occasions there is no cloud cover to bounce streetlights, the stars and moon supply all the light you should need.
If you must use a light, then use one that's as dim as you can get away with.
One that actually expands your night vision, rather than destroys it.
The bastards who go around imitating lighthouses, do nothing but destroy their night vision and limit their vision to the beam itself.
And they insist on shining the damn things in your eyes.
There are a lot of people who don't know just how lucky they are.
But one of these days someone's going to have one ripped from their head and inserted where nothing ever shines !
But I never said that and if it should happen - it definitely wasn't me and I wasn't there

It's a totally seperate issue from enjoying Christmas lights.
In the UK it's traditional to take them down 12th night.
There doesn't seem to be any guide to when you light up. Some barely wait for Halloween to be over and some wait till a couple weeks before Christmas.
And some miserable buggers never have any.
So it's a constantly changing landscape of colour and motion.
And it's all gone away for another year