The feeling of nostalgia is so common that sometimes we have the unconscious idea that it is there as something inherent to who we are, and that is why we can all identify with it: we live with the nostalgia perched behind our backs, we walk with it, dance with it and caress it even more when it rains, it is as if the days of sadness she wants to be seen more.
“Nostalgia is loving a past that crushes us in the present. It’s a belated happiness. He sleeps in a hammock and continues to remember reconciliations after fighting for unimportant reasons. Missing details. It just doesn’t kill because it has the pleasure of torture. “-Gabito Nunes-
- We feel the nostalgia of someone.
- Of something.
- Of a past that is no longer present and that we wanted them to be; we also feel the nostalgia for a gift that is not and has not been; nostalgia for moments.
- Details.
- Caresses.
- Words.
- Nostalgia is definitely as real as we can be ourselves.
- And that’s why it moves so deeply.
A few days ago I read an article in which the author said that our past is like a strange country from which we were exiled and then as a country that has already suffered exile and is cold, sometimes we want to go back in search. In this sense, figurative exile can be very distant, or almost simultaneous to its present.
I think all this is true: as long as nostalgia doesn’t reach prolonged melancholy, wanting to come back from time to time is another way of knowing who we are from who we were, I don’t mean that we don’t want to live in the present, or that we feel bad, but that in this way we recognize and are aware of what we are going through.
People are nostalgic, as the Portuguese writer said, because missing something the small makes it huge, because that little thing is absence and you need it for your whole being, that is why we are nostalgic: because like love, we cannot feel superficial nostalgia, it accompanies us in all our actions.
When we hear the word nostalgia, we immediately think it’s surrounded by something sad and sweet at the same time.
To miss family, friends or the couple, for example, is to feel momentarily unprotected, but it is also a hug when we need to know who is with us and who we really want with us.
It is true that we usually have a face of melancholy, however, it is brave to understand that nostalgia is the absence of something that was or is worthwhile, that was or is beautiful, that made us or gladdens us.
And I speak of courage because if it is a permanent absence, it is difficult to understand the need to see nostalgia as the price of the most beautiful things, nothing will make us feel nostalgic if we do not bring the certainty of true happiness. , probable or coexisting.
And, for all this, do we have to face the nostalgia that completes us, that is part of the world and that makes us see that we actually live, despite its consequences?