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Days Long Gone

Katalri_105

Entry posted by Katalri_105 in I genuinely don’t know at this point

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Isn’t it exhilarating, being in a place you know fondly after a while. The familiarity hits you as soon as you approach, and the memories just bubble up from there. It’s not the same for everyone, but the feeling is similar. 

For me, it’s a specific set of beaches. Down on the southeast coast of a country. And only in the wintertime, when the air is cold and wind strong. It’s actually really unpleasant when you think about it, but holds many fond memories. Memories of a simpler time. Of a time where stories were started, the sparks of ideas flew and ignited. Some of my best unwritten work was started there, all those years ago. 

In a way, the memories hold a story, not of characters of the mind, but one of reality. Of years of adaptation to an everchanging script. The race of life, slightly slowed down. The afternoons that let time pass without consequence. Minutes blend into hours. In a way, they were an escape. But we know an escape cannot last forever. 

Funnily enough, I don’t think about it that much when I’m actually there. Sure, I appreciate the views and the feels, taking it in before returning to mundanity. But most of the emotions are felt afterwards. Days, months, or even years after. My heart burns for days like those again; a deep, yearning pain.  

Maybe I’m childish, clinging onto memories long gone. But they will always be there. As time wears down on the world. As the changing skies bring new days. As long as I live, I will yearn for those days long gone. 

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Usseewa

Usseewa Gerontarch

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Sometimes - sometimes very often, it depends on my mood - I yearn for an experience or a memory or a life I don't have. Lately I have the awareness that it probably won't be as... perfect as I imagine it, but in my imagination and mind it is perfect.

You made me think, that maybe the *memory* would be perfect. Maybe if I *did* have what I imagine, it would be perfect in memory.

Idk if you were melancholic/nostalgic, idk. Uhm yeh but that's my thought.

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Katalri_105

Katalri_105 Babsk

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8 hours ago, Usseewa said:

Sometimes - sometimes very often, it depends on my mood - I yearn for an experience or a memory or a life I don't have. Lately I have the awareness that it probably won't be as... perfect as I imagine it, but in my imagination and mind it is perfect.

You made me think, that maybe the *memory* would be perfect. Maybe if I *did* have what I imagine, it would be perfect in memory.

Idk if you were melancholic/nostalgic, idk. Uhm yeh but that's my thought.

I wrote this because I recently (as in a few days ago,) visited one of these places again. It wasn’t ‘the same’ ones as before, but it was in the same general area, and the vibes were similar. And I had friends with me this time so it was quite different if you think about it.

My memories of it weren’t every second of the entire trip, but a few things I though were key or important that captured the experience (views, sounds, feelings, story ideas I started there). And when I’m not there, I do sometimes feel an intense feeling that I want to go back (I don’t go the most often, once a year if I get lucky).

All I can really say is maybe do some of those experiences and get those memories, it seems like it would be nice for you :) 

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