noun
a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time: a nostalgia for his college days.[source]
Well. This is fun. In The Fault in Our Stars, Hazel says that people list nostalgia among the side effects of cancer, but in fact, it isn't. Nostalgia, she says, is a side effect of dying. ("Almost everything is, really.") I'm pretty sure I'm not dying, though. So though it pains me to say this Hazel, I disagree.
Nostalgia isn't a side effect of dying; it's a side effect of change. And don't get me wrong, change is good. People working together, reaching greater heights, building new things. But like the rest of life . . . sometimes, I wish I could go back.
a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time: a nostalgia for his college days.[source]
Nostalgia isn't a side effect of dying; it's a side effect of change. And don't get me wrong, change is good. People working together, reaching greater heights, building new things. But like the rest of life . . . sometimes, I wish I could go back.
Back about two weeks - two weeks to when my friend was still here. She left for a month in Europe, then a month in South America directly afterwards. Left on the 24th, and . . . it's taken 'till about now for it to sink in. So here I am, trying to make the transition of someone being here . . . and then not.
Nostalgia.
Anyway, thanks for reading, even though I'm a couple days late.
-Allie H-S
No comments:
Post a Comment