Remembrance!

It is strange how people keep holding the pieces of the past while waiting for future?

One day while having conversation with a friend about one of his childhood photographs a word cloaked in my mind – Nostalgia. That sentimental longing or regretful affection of past which people often associate with fabled, and rosy painted time they feel can’t enjoy anymore. It is difficult to understand that why people look at their future with doubt and grief of moving on instead of walking with confidence to be in happier place than they were.

The past is a time frame of learning and thereafter letting go. You can’t always stay there, it disappears.

In entire lifetime we leave traces of ourselves in various moments which are worthwhile. That’s amazing how a rose from book or an old photograph stop your rushing life into slow and sweet ride to down the memory lane. Remembrance or Walk to Memory Lane must restore possibility to that earlier period, possibility of making all of it happen again. Instead of weeping on how happy your days were, work on that same model of happiness and make today brighter. People often let go happiness of today on loss made yesterday. While talking of this, I would like to quote one of the finest and my favorite liners of Thomas Edison – “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”.  We have to understand that we will not be able to return to the place which no longer exists.

Psychologist Clay Routledge, who studies nostalgia at North Dakota State University, states that there are two types of nostalgia: autobiographical (a fondness for your own memories) and historical (a fondness for broader cultural ones). There’s this notion that younger generations stay connected to older generations because we pass down our nostalgia. It has to be associated with positive feelings, self-regard improvisation and for enhancing bonds with our loved ones instead of depressive and regressive state: being stuck in the past.

Any fraction of time you just lived and passed by was the best! Be HERE each day and enjoy what life gives. Let today be nostalgia for tomorrow and repeat this every day. Memories re-visit will be worth then. Surfing old photographs in good but sometimes. Let the old memories be mirror of your transformation.

The best moments are the ones we live fully, hence instead of holding on why not create new ones every day. Let your journey to the end of the day be precious and happier all time!!!