nostalgia
“It seems like we are scared to pick someone else's scab, to make them bleed all over again. But the wound is still open. Maybe it's gushing or maybe it's starting to crust over, but it will never not need tending.”
Sheryl Sandberg, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
I’m not just nostalgic for my past; I’m nostalgic for my pain. My own past suffering can be a great source of comfort. Why is that? Because it’s over? Or because it’s a badge of honor?
Elisa Gabbert • The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
Me and nostalgia go way back
instagram.comToday, researchers describe nostalgia as a frequent, primarily positive, context-specific bittersweet emotion that combines elements of happiness and sadness with a sense of yearning and loss.
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Nonstalgia (noun) The unsettling sensation that you are never be able to fully access the past; that once you are departed from an event, some essential quality of it is lost forever. A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space,
... See moreCarmen Maria Machado • In the Dream House
How can I feel so melancholy for so terrible a past? Maybe that’s just the nature of us, ever wishing for things that were and could be rather than things that are and will be. It takes more to hope than to remember.
-Darrow
A reminder not to squander love out of fear...
Fernando Pessoa: https://t.co/LEhaWL5Tpt
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