#162

So good. I’d been hankering after the sweet Jalapeños I’d got from Trader Joe’s, last time I was over there and these things are even better.

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#163

HIGNFY is so shit

#164

oh man

like… when I was 16/17/18, I didn’t have a life at all, and I started being nostalgic for being a little kid?

which is because we’d moved house and moved schools so many times, so I’d left everything that meant anything behind already at that point

what I’d say is that… it’s a good ache, really. it’s one of life’s inevitable sadnesses, but it’s far from the worst one, and the best way to deal with it is to make things to look forward to and enjoy things in your present.

which is probably obvious - defs obvious.

also obvious that this year will have done a lot to have made that nostalgia more painful; like when it was for me, it was the emptiness of my present making me long for the past.

…

to cut to it, you need to make the present your new home. dig into it, truly live within it.

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#165

my friend Dean reckons my HDD is in the dumb standard Apple format, which is probs the case

but he’s gonna look at it tomorrow when we have a little four person + one baby (regular) house decorating/xmas food and booze/mostly regular cool indie tryhard music get-together

(no booze for the small one, but she is old enough for some snacks now I think, wow)

which is nice

I’m listening to ‘Vienna’ and pondering what to do next

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#166

I’m really fed up of feeling constantly nostalgic. I thought this happened when you got old old but I feel like it consumes me.

Like Thomas Wolfe says “You can’t go home again”

#167

These are very wise words imo m8

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#168

About to watch Stop Making Sense for the first time (somehow)

Old fashioned in hand

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#169

Oh man I wish I was off. I’d happily try and do a cool gal private chat zoom lesson me and her :joy:
Honestly though if you ever need any thing or resources just to keep you going please let me know and I’ll try help in any way I can x gutted you los out on the dollar, also please use fund cos I will openly admit I have when I’ve struggled and its a weight lifted so don’t be proud about that xxxx

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#170

The memories are so vivid which is a blessing and a curse

#171

Pet owners

Do you ever get really proud and emotional that your pet just takes themselves off to do their own thing at human bedtime?

Brave champs.

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#172

image

#173

Bit sad, m9s

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#174

I’m getting it loads these days. Obviously this year hasn’t helped with the whole dwelling thing, but still.

I reckon hankering for those childhood Christmases makes it worse at this time of year too. Like, on top of just memories. Everything is telling you, you must remember those times.

#175

Yeah, its weird though as I don’t particularly have overly fond childhood memories and its also not even from that long ago I get it, like 10 years ago. I get it worst for places rather than people or feelings, there’s two houses that weren’t even my house that I think about constantly. I also dream about houses all the time too and secret rooms.

Maybe…I’m a house?

#176

I pretended to be a pilot on Zoom. Zoom was fun

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#177

Regarding nostalgia and homesickness, there is a special Welsh word for that, which is hiraeth. It also connotes regret, or a longing for a home that never was. It is one of the most poetic words, and I feel it in my bones

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#178

Sending you hugs

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#179

oh shit that is a solid word

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#180

Yeah, I’ve written about this word a lot in my MA and in an article I did that I called grief of place.

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#181

Ah then you probably know more about it than me

Grief of place fits it amazingly too. Is that up to read anywhere?

I can probably just google that can’t I, lazy bones I am