Nostalgia…..Now.

 

 

 

Remember…you will soon feel nostalgic about this very moment right now.

Someone posted a list on facebook this morning titled, “40 things that will make you feel old.”

Naturally, because my gray hair isn’t enough of a reminder, I clicked on the link and began to read.

The list made mention of how old the cast of Full House is now, it showed a picture of the dude from Blues Clues that totally gave me the creeps, reminded me of how important floppy disks used to be, did you know that the Motorola Razr is in a MUSEUM? A. MUSEUM.

I began to feel overwhelmingly….nostalgic….especially when I thought back to all those after-school-nickelodeon-Clarissa-Explains-It-All days.

Sigh.

And then I thought…..one day….I will feel the same exact way about right this second.

I’ll think back on the days when I came home to Charlie wagging his tail (or whatever excuse of a tail he has), afternoons on the beach, happy hours with friends, evenings watching the sun go down at the Galleon, getting beat up by the sloppy waves near the pier, drinking wine and listening to Billy Holiday at Chill, golf cart rides in the middle of the night, Orange Blossom Festivals, laughing at the Onion exhibit at  Art Basel, Namaste Mondays, Reggae and Country filled festivals on the sand, barefoot walks on west coast shores, various laundry dates… and I’ll have the same longing for this time that I have for the Sailor Moon Days.

Each phase of life is as important as the next.

All of them are impermanent.

All of them will be looked back on and missed.

So I thought….why not miss it now? Long for it now? This way, I’ll want what I already have.

And therefore…..I will not want…..at all…..

Evidently, nostalgia for the now turns into satisfaction…..detachment……and therefore breeds peace within.

And contentment.

Just a thought.