True Left

Does anyone else here feel nostalgia for specific chapters of one's life?

Even when I was a very young, I was constantly melancholIC over the passing of every periods in my life, and this continues for me to this day. I'll look back and immerse myself in how life felt during a particular holiday, season, year. Or times when I lived in a certain area, spoke to certain people, saw and smelled certain sights and aromas — each "era" had a special energy in the air that was unique to that particular period.

The nostalgia can hit me in the face out of nowhere too. There used to times I'd be miserable at work, and then all the smell of leaves in the breeze will remind me of a time I was more free. I think nostalgia is important for remembering who you are, because sometimes, the people we were are today are totally different than the people we are now. Forget that, and you forget yourself.