It’s different for everyone, this feeling of nostalgia, brought about by a number of our physical senses… sometimes all at once, even!
Whether it’s a smell,
or a sound,
a memory,
or often times just a simple touch…
A human’s capacity to feel emotions of any kind comes from deep within the individual, starting at birth and continuing on for the rest of our lifetime.
All I know is that my personal sense of nostalgia arises from what I see, hear, smell and/or touch. Oh, and taste… always the taste of something blissfully yummy!
Speaking of yummy, here’s a cookie…
Now, from here on out, every time you eat a good cookie you’ll think of me… see… cookies = Nostalgia!
I saw the question this morning and immediately saw a problem… the time line!
According to the definition, which I have included below, this feeling of Nostalgia must come from the past.
a sentimentallonging or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.
I have several problems answering the question in its current form, one being the concrete time of the PAST, the other problem comes from finding a memory that is pure happiness without any sorrow following in its wake! With any problem, or let’s say obstacle, my hat goes backwards and my eyebrows furrow forward with determination, challenging this literary Goliath with my tiny typing fingers.
I’ve written scads of things that reveal how my past is fully saturated with beauty and pain all rolled into one! Enough said!
I believe that it IS possible to be nostalgic for what is to come, based on both the past and present journey. I am looking forward to being home, more than any dream or memory I have in my noggin!
Don’t think that I expect you to just agree with me, without any examples or evidence given, so I shall present my Prompt Rule Breaking Case as best I can…
I am a Christian… a born again Believer and a chosen child of God, therefore, it stands to reason that I will live, eat, breathe, and speak the Word of God. To do this fully, I believe fully in the entire Bible… all of it! I accept the truth of that book as the living breathing words of God! This book is my evidence of what is to come… the good and the bad! I believe that we were never promised an easy walk, as this is a broken and fallen world, so buckle up Buttercup! The bible also tells, in countless entries of what is to come, for all of us. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m well aware of how bad it looks back in my history, and I can’t wait until I see His face at the end of this life!
I will share with you my version of Nostalgia, coming from the future! How can I do this, you ask? Well, if the words of the bible are Holy Writ, then it stands to reason that this future is guaranteed to be there for me when I arrive!
Since I have no human understanding of what God will actually look like when I arrive, I sort of have this vision in my head of what it might look like to Him as I enter the gates. The vision may sound comical, but I do think that God has a great sense of humor. Imagine God all squared up, like a baseball pitcher, at the gates with a mitt in one hand, leaving the other hand poised to assist. As you look out into the clouds beyond the gates, you begin to hear the thunder, followed by bolts of lightening shooting across the sky. Next, you see commotion in the clouds, followed by a massive tidal wave that literally thrusts me up over the edge and sends me like a high powered missile toward my Creators’ waiting arms.
As I often say, to anyone stopping long enough to listen, Go Big or Go Home… or better yet, Go Big AND Go Home!!!
In your face prompt box, Ha!
Here, some of you may need a handful of cookies on this one…
Journey With Me! 