Nostalgia in the moment

When one is nostalgic they are longing for a moment from the past., the past that no longer exist but in that split second they are in the past. A deep part of them is yearning for a moment that once existed but as the yearn they are in a new moment with a past moment.

As we stroll down life paths we make memories.

Notalgia is a one word oxymoron, it can bring feelings of joy and sadness all in an instant. We can remember but then regret what we remember. We hold onto what we want to let go of, It can be a moment we want to remember or forget. It keeps us stuck in the past and changes the trajectory of our future,

As we reminisce, we lose time in this day and age. In our pining of what was, we lose what is. It can be a blessing or a curse. It can prevent us from moving forward when we are longing for the past.

It is comfort and heart ache. It is reflective and restorative. It is empowering and disempowering. It is progressive and regressive. Its familiar and unfamiliar. Its pain and pleasure. Its happiness and disappointment. Its reward and punishment.

When we are nostalgic we can surge or recede. We can have ups or downs. We can be happy or sad. We can grow or shrink. We can awake or sleep. We can lose sight of hope or we can have all the faith in the world.

If one attaches to nostalgia for to long, we lose faith in what lies ahead. In remembering it can close the door to our fate. Recollection can turn us around on our path and cause us to look down the dark path of nothing for a long time, losing sight of the light.

Our fear of change keeps us fastened to the past. Our hope of the future can keep us pushing forward. Our experiences of the past shape our future. Nostalgia will for always be apart of us, its feeds our ego and our hearts. With it we have good memories and bad ones, happy ones and sad ones. We can either suffer from it or have joy, darkness or light, fear or love. It can bring us great lesson in dark moments or the light moments. We have to power to empower ourselves in what memories we get lost in.

It is simply a feeling we had in a moment that once existed. As we relive that moment, we can choose to have new feelings around it.