Heartbreaking Nostalgia

[Pam]

Posted by Isserley (here)
Heartbreaking Nostalgia - in my case, it is not related to objects nor people at all. It is more about the hole I feel in my stomach when I remember my "before" state. The state before coming here, where I lost myself little by little. Only remnants and that infinite hole remain. Life in matter corrupts the spirit, whether we like it or not. This body alone acts as a prison, especially with age and deteriorating health.
No matter how hard I try to be positive and maintain this temple of the soul, it still feels like I am in a windowless cell where I persistently arrange that cell day after day to make it tidy and as bearable as possible.

All that remains is an ever fading memory of a feeling that has long since disappeared and is starting to seem like a dream or a delusion.

Zeitgeist we currently live in does not support the soul at all, but rather denies it. Such a world invokes great sadness.

"There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand adventure, but a series of small, insignificant moments, that love is not a fairy tale, but a fragile, fleeting emotion, that happiness is not a permanent state, but a rare, fleeting glimpse of something we can never hold onto. And in that understanding, there is a profound loneliness, a sense of being cut off from the world, from other people, from oneself."

Virginia Woolf

Isserley, I just found a picture of me at 19. I was taking a short trip and actually carried my cat with me. There was such a twinkle of joy in my eyes and even the cat was happy to be carried by me on a trip to a boat ride. That sparkle of mystery is gone. The sense of possibility, the hole , I get it. I have spent just a about a year, mostly silent. Doesn't seem I have much to say so why blather on. I can go days without saying a word, without wishing to say a word. I have the luxury of being able to do that.

[thepainterdoug]

jaybee/ and everyone. it is rare that I am ever angry with anyone. I love you all!! was just being a stickler for accuracy in fact and detail

Minis were made from 1959 to 1999 My lil green one is a 1999 British Open classic car with an electric sunroof.

then BMW bought them and americanized the car. most all real mini people do not like the bmw model.

[jaybee]

Posted by thepainterdoug (here)
jaybee/ and everyone. it is rare that I am ever angry with anyone. I love you all!! was just being a stickler for accuracy in fact and detail

Minis were made from 1959 to 1999 My lil green one is a 1999 British Open classic car with an electric sunroof.

then BMW bought them and americanized the car. most all real mini people do not like the bmw model.

re bolded...... ....... I know and good for you - I was just playing - and your sharing of the pic of you and your Mini inspired some great posts...

My Grandpa had a classic mini in the late 60s / early 70's - it was a lime green colour

then his eyesight deteriorated and Mom took it over - then one day there was a prang and it was one of those accidents where the car behind banged into the mini and made it bang into the car in front - no fault of Mom's but it all got complicated insurance~wise and it had to be scrapped with damage to the front AND back...

[jaybee]

Posted by jaybee (here)
..... two fold nostalgia.... for the days when just about everyone went to see certain films at the cinema...or 'Pictures' as it was also called in Britain ... which created a bond...

like Love Story (1970)..... at the end audiences were not just crying quietly but sobbing .... myself included....in fact just listening to the Theme music has set me off again just now...

one of the comments that encapsulates the emotion...

this is the movie I will forever cherish. everytime I hear this theme I can immediately feel tears flow into my eyes. this film made me feel something a single film has never made me feel. I will never forget.. ”love means never having to say you’re sorry” 💔

Theme From Love Story (3:20)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=53Nh3XxBiWg

(ps. @ Johnnycomelately - - you wanted some 'heartbreaking' nostalgia - how will this do you...? ...

dabbing away the tears as I type.....

[RunningDeer]

Back up copy.

Henry Mancini & His Orchestra - Theme from "Love Story”

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9ab3rOIhHVM

Posted by jaybee (here)

Posted by jaybee (here)
..... two fold nostalgia.... for the days when just about everyone went to see certain films at the cinema...or 'Pictures' as it was also called in Britain ... which created a bond...

like Love Story (1970)..... at the end audiences were not just crying quietly but sobbing .... myself included....in fact just listening to the Theme music has set me off again just now...

one of the comments that encapsulates the emotion...

this is the movie I will forever cherish. everytime I hear this theme I can immediately feel tears flow into my eyes. this film made me feel something a single film has never made me feel. I will never forget.. ”love means never having to say you’re sorry” 💔

Theme From Love Story (3:20)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=53Nh3XxBiWg

(ps. @ Johnnycomelately - - you wanted some 'heartbreaking' nostalgia - how will this do you...? ...

dabbing away the tears as I type.....

[Rawhide68]

I feel nostalgia for the 1920's and have no clue at all why that is. My parents wasnt even born back then.

If I had a time machine, the year I want to go back to is 1926 for some reason.
Could this have to with a previous incarnation of me in that time?

I have not tried hypnotic regression therapy but I'm curious why I always have had this fascination for that time on this planet even as a child.
Nostalgia to me is watching pictures, photos and films from that time.

Here is the latest episode from my favorite YouTube channel
*The1920sChannel*

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dqKmv7rQjuE

[Bruce G Charlton]

I am a bit late contributing to the Mini car nostalgia, but this thread comes as a synchronicity. So here goes...

My family had a series of (about five?) Minis across about twenty-five years and starting with a very early model.

I learned to drive and passed my test on one of these - a mid 1970s model.

I always enjoyed driving the Mini. It's road-holding was good; engine braking was so marked that you hardly needed to use the footblake; it was good in the snow; and I found it quite acceptable even on long journeys (eg Edinburgh to Bristol). The seating was comfortable - or at least did not give me a backache (as so many car seats did), despite me being 6ft tall.

The early models had better design features IMO (e.g. sliding windows allowing large door pockets, a boot lid that opened with a hinge at the bottom, to make a shelf; hydrolastic suspension).

I later inherited an early 1980s model that was the only car I've owned with which I had a kind of personal relationship.

I still miss the Mini, in some ways.