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Strange Remnants
4 years ago
Every now and then, some brief and sudden fragment of... something, I'm not sure what to call it, flashes into my life.
It's something sort of like nostalgia, but more of an in-the-moment feeling than a longing for the past; some brief flicker of what it felt like to experience something forgotten, and then suddenly gone again.
It's an emotional experience that's just pleasant enough to hurt, too fleeting to be properly enjoyed, leaving a lingering memory of something that isn't there anymore and won't be again, because the past is the past and that world, that time, that life is gone now, leaving only the present.
It's something sort of like nostalgia, but more of an in-the-moment feeling than a longing for the past; some brief flicker of what it felt like to experience something forgotten, and then suddenly gone again.
It's an emotional experience that's just pleasant enough to hurt, too fleeting to be properly enjoyed, leaving a lingering memory of something that isn't there anymore and won't be again, because the past is the past and that world, that time, that life is gone now, leaving only the present.
when life was good and didnt suck so badly.. I remember flashes in Middle and High school... or when I moved to West Chester after Graduating High school... before life eroded me into a Cynic LOL
One common one is a sudden memory of the joy that I used to feel in certain weather conditions, but the joy is just a fleeting memory; I don't feel much joy anymore in that sort of thing.