Nostalgia

A year's passed since the inception of this blog; more than a year, in fact. Yet I'm not treating it as a momentous occasion, a reason to celebrate and reflect upon my reflections. On the contrary, I'm skimming the contents of this blog with a somewhat warranted, somewhat justified amount of contempt.

Nostalgia; funny how I can only look back at some of these posts, and only see a vast history of weakness. I suppose hindsight is 20/20, after all, and I never truly had my Xanga/Myspace/Blog of teenage-angst-phase until college. Call me a late bloomer, if you will.

Nostalgia is a tricky emotion indeed. Its both sad and joyful, mournful yet celebratory; I think nostalgia has to be the most two-sided feeling ever. And coming to the end of the road that is my undergrad years, I feel a sudden amount of nostalgia.

Of memories gone and faded forever. Of flickers from the past that burst clarity into my brain, that bring smile or frown on my face. Right now I'm listening to Everything In Its Right Place, a song that I once dedicated an entry to. Rather, it is a remix of the song; old, yet new. Carrying the same words, lyrics, yet an entirely different pace and tempo. An entirely new song, yet at its fundamental core, the same hypnotic melody that took my mind to so many different places.

Ah, nostalgia. You're starting to get me misty-eyed.