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Nostalgia

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Libby
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Please humour me while I ramble with my thoughts today. Recently I’ve been thinking about finales and I don’t mean of your favourite TV show variety. Like the time you did something for the last time, did you know you would never do it again? I am the type of person that gets very nostalgic for times passed. I remember with clarity the day I drove away from boarding school for the last time and how I felt knowing I would never return and that my friends were all off to start new chapters. I remember exactly what I ate at a farewell dinner with my friends in Japan – this has a lot to do with accidentally eating a chilli that I thought was going to kill me but that’s another story.

Then there are the other times that you thought you would see, visit or do again and never quite got around to it before the opportunity vanished. I’m not trying to be morose and I don’t know the purpose of this post. Do you get overly nostalgic like me? Or are you the type of person that embraces the future without looking back?

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4 responses to “Nostalgia”

  1. Piper Avatar
    Piper

    I loved how you talked about thinking of it as a finale but you don’t realize it! That’s so true for so many things…sometimes when I’m looking through pictures it’s hard to not get a bit nostalgic for times past. But I like to look forward and think of what the next day will bring – the surprise of it 🙂

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  2. Robin G Avatar
    Robin G

    This has been the strongest for me with my youngest child. She will be turning 12 next month. Everytime something has ended for her, it’s my last.

    I remember crying on her last day of preschool, knowing I would never have a preschooler again. Same thing with kindergarten and other things.

    She will be going to junior high in the fall. No more elementary school children. All those years spent wishing we were done and they were more independent have come back to haunt me.

    Each new step is wonderful, but I mourn the one we left behind.

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    1. Libby Avatar
      Libby

      Ahh yes.. I’m doing that now with my youngest. We are half way through the preschool year and already I’m getting nostalgic.

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  3. Eileen Avatar
    Eileen

    Beautiful post, Libby! ~ wow..I would say that I’m more of an embrace the future without looking back kinda girl…for the most part. It’s not to say I don’t look back and feel nostalgic, my heart and mind just move through it together a bit easier now. I know nostalgia certainly must set in much more when you have children. It’s interesting you say you remember with clarity certain events that you know you’ll never experience again. That clarity hit me hard once…I get nostalgic about an opportunity that vanished..I don’t have children. I wish I would have done things differently, let relationships go earlier, … ~ well Libby, …I don’t know, maybe I’m actually a good balance of both!

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