Nostalgia

Nostalgia is described as reminiscence of the good memories of good past life. It is always viewed under a negative light, as it is our mental projection of the things we can only positively recollect directly confronted to our current reality, which we tend to see as lacking something or missing pieces. To sum up, is to recall with deep passion what you can no longer have, memories that for one reason or another, no longer can be relived.

I don't see nostalgia in bad terms. Maybe because I don't feel bad about past things that have happened to me, or that I don't feel that "the best of my life has passed". What would living be worth for? We might as well jump off a cliff, or a bridge, if we thing that the best is gone and only the worst is to come. That's when I have these very vivid reminiscences of my past when I'm in the shower, or going for a run, or after some word triggers something in my head... I don't think "remember that? I wish I could live it again" because I don't. Not even the best times, I don't want to live them again. I want new good times and new bad times, and everything coming up like I've never witnessed it before. That's what I like. The same situation cannot happen twice, like a man cannot bathe himself twice in the same waters of the river (or of the sea, or the shower for that matter).

Let life flow, and flow with it. Nostalgia is only a heavy stone that most people carry in their minds and makes life so hard for them. As I've always said, I prefer to think of problems and bad experiences as hailstones: heavy at first, but then melting at some point.

You can clearly see I am working hard on my mental strenght hehe. I just hope the bleep test trials would say the same! Paha!