There are MANY, MANY, MANY Beatles songs that are truly magnificent,inspiring,wonderful (they are, after all THE BEATLES) but this song in particular always resonated with me ever since I was a child. Even when I only had a few years of experience in me, nostalgia has always been something that hit me. That made me feel. If you believe in reincarnation, maybe you will say that I was remembering something from a past life. Sometimes I believe in reincarnation--other times I don't.
But whatever I believe in--nostalgia has always been beautiful to me. Whether it's an important theme in a film, book, or music - any artwork with nostalgia gives me chills.
It is a word whose roots come from "homecoming" and "pain." I always find myself looking back at the past. Believe it or not, when I was in 4th grade, I would find myself crying in fits (alone, of course. Even back then I was careful to make sure only I saw my pain) because I would miss being a baby. True story. Crazy, right? Imagine a nine year old crying because they miss the past so much that it hurts. Even right now, as I'm typing this, I am on the verge of tears because I miss so much being a kid. How happy everyone was. & how it'll never be that way anymore.
Not that I, nor my loved ones, will never be happy again. But it's always going to be a different kind of happiness.
But even when it's not related to my past experiences - when I see a montage of someone's life, of someone's past, it always gets to me. The film Mr Nobody got to me because you see his entire life, his mistakes. In My Life - nostalgia.
I can't quite grab the thought and put it into words. but there's a beauty in looking back, to see how things were & can never be again. It's bittersweet.
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