Missing

Nostalgia is lovely. Reminiscing is like a warm blanket on a cold day - warm fuzzies.  The old saying goes that you can never go back home. Nonsense. In your thoughts and memories you can. Some of us remember everything - the good and the bad, some of us remember only the bad, and some of us remember only the good. I think I camp in the last remembering. Quite honestly, I love sharing the 'good old days', because for me - they were. So I have no problem sharing my 'then'.

However, they can get in our way and we miss what's happening around us right now. I really don't want to do this because right now will become that reminiscing in the years that come. What is your view of all this - are you the nostalgia type? Do you use nostalgia to replace the pain of now? I would hope for the first question and pray that the second isn't yours. Nostalgia was never meant to replace, it is to celebrate and enjoy what was.

Now is important. And, if it isn't what you want it to be, can you help create closer to what you want? And if that's also a 'no' then make nostalgia times in your day but don't get bummed by what is (when it isn't what you want) you could be missing something 'good'. 

One thing that definitely dictates the nostalgia is the people that populate the memories. If they aren't positive influencers in your life then, then they can't be now. People are really the content of the memories. But you also have to 'let them go' or all you'll do is cry over what you are missing. If you didn't miss it then (and memories kinda tell that story), you won't miss it now. 

Miss the yesterday? It's OK, just don't try and live in your yesterday missed. Let it go and make memories of now. Missing now is truly sad, and once gone, never available again. But you can stop the missing by focusing on the blessings you have in your life now. Celebrate them.