Nostalgia

Perhaps you know this feeling. When a song that you'd forgotten existed suddenly fills your ears and you find yourself transported to another time and place. A time when you discovered who you were, and who you wanted to be. You realized the confines of the world you grew up in were nothing but a story. A place that lives in your memory still, held in unnatural suspension from the passage of time. Every lyric floats out of your throat on a wind of hope and longing, you find the words sail effortlessly into the space around you as tears you didn't know were falling make glossy trails down your face. Oh, the people who loved you and sang this song with you! Where are they now? Oh, the people you loved as they sang this song with you! Do they wonder where you are? And then, as the last note drifts out of the speakers and catches in your throat, maybe you're filled with an ache for that time and place. You share a half-smile with yourself as you realize, you'll always ache. No matter what goodness and peace (or sadness and grief), you find, you'll never stop chasing that time, that place.