The Poison of Nostalgia

Nostalgia should stay buried in a tomb of memories. 

Aurelius Kadzius

*Nostalgia - a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.

Nostalgia comes from an old love that can honestly chase you down with good intentions. The love of something or someone from your past, perhaps even a moment in time. 

Nostalgia can be the sweet brown sugar sprinkled on a series of words, or a spark ignited by a memory, or a meeting with old friends and lovers, sweet to the ears but frivolous to a man's heart. A man's heart thirsts for the now and the actions of the now. The commitment to now and the unknown beyond it. 

 In these moments, the risk of commitment to something that may or may not change, stay or leave, destroy or create, live or die. Nostalgia is a thief, a clever one. It steals you away from all that is real now, all you can see, touch, and smell. Those you hug, hold, fight, and love are next to you. 

A poison only to the man living now, delivered in a bite from a fat belly snake, the bite doesn't sting nor burn. It is warm and floods the mind of young love, strength, and glory. Emotions raise a slumbering monster from a past so long ago that you thought it should be dead.

A man stands at the breach point; you guard the gate. 

Understand that intentions of nostalgia are the equivalent of a leaky bucket filled with water brought to you during a thirst, nothing real to drink. 

Water droplets leave a trail back to where they came from or those that brought it. Those that bring it have no courage to build anything new with it, or perhaps you don't, or I don't. 

Understand that you may be bringing the bucket to yourself, becoming your own problem, or an outsider can strike the match to light up the tomb where men keep old memories locked away, where nostalgia of young love and young glory is kept. 

This is not meant to motivate, just to make a man think, analyze, observe, and decide what to do next.

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