Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
~Robert Burns
Nostalgia, a longing for things past. We all feel it, and it seems to play a larger role in our lives as we get older. Which makes perfect sense because the older we get the more we think about yesterday and eventually there are more days in the past than in the future.
It is late December just after Christmas and the new year is fast approaching. The Holidays are full of nostalgia. Who can forget being a child and…? Traditions. No matter how rotten a childhood had been people prefer to recall "the good old times."
Writing and thinking of time has made me wish for Doc Brown's Delorian time machine. I’d just love to have one. What nostalgia!
Happy New Year.
4 comments:
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either. -Garrison Keillor
Imagination equals nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
Happy New Year friend, thank you for the thoughtful post.
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect.
Happy New Year.
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