The Depth Of Nostalgia

While love, fear, or anger might move and evoke great passion, nostalgia lies in a much subtler place.

• It is the heart-aching reminiscence of your parents singing you to sleep.
• It is in the laughter of friends we once knew, but which now echoes into an empty space.
• It is in first love, childhood pets, movie nights, Christmas mornings, and final goodbyes.
• It is a great joy, shadowed with sadness and longing. It is that dark well of poignancy that makes you feel lonely and without something you once had.
• It is the tear-soaked smile of happy times, no longer here.