The Bonds of Sentiments: A Nostalgia

Emotions and feelings are one the most precious attributes that human beings possess, feelings make you travel in the pleasant memories of past and provoke blissful voyages. Emotions have no boundaries, neither do they suffer from discrimination of race, skin, border, and nationalities. Human beings hold similar emotions no matter whether they live in the deserts of Sahara or in the snowy lands of Siberia. It is the feeling that connects people around the globe. Human beings attach themselves with the place they live, people they surround and even with the inanimate facets which they experience in their everyday life. It is often hard to say goodbye to some beloved friends and places to whom you are attached emotionally.

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Many at times, it is distressing to think about the closure part of any demanding venture when it has not yet completed as even we are on our way of achieving life goals but the emotional attachments make you feel grieved. Individuals don’t usually express their emotions with others however most often a sea of sentiments flow inside them. Life teaches us many intense lessons it makes us taste both the bitterness and the sweetness at the same time. Emotional attachments bring hardships to our lives where sometimes it becomes tough to come out of. Sometimes a tree on your daily path fascinates us, where it is always there when we pass by. It glitters in the moonlight and welcomes us while we come back home tired after accomplishing our daily milestones. It is the human soul that associate itself with the daily life artifacts which sometimes resist when we try to change things. When we know we have to leave from where we have never think of in the past which becomes hard to realize that fact. When the day arrives that we have to say goodbye our soul still makes us feel comfortable by pampering us as goodbye will never occur. However, factually, we have to say goodbye to the place where we live for so long, to the tree which always greeted us while coming back exhausted, and to the bed which relaxes us and provides us energy for the next day.  Here, the soul resists us crying and grabbing all the things like a little kid as it will never be able to leave them. However, we have to come out of the comfortable zone to start a new venture, create a new destiny, new attachments where we live and craft new memories to give our life a new meaning.

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Sometimes the incoming sunlight from your office window instigates nostalgic feelings in you and takes you to the past when you felt similar feelings in such a ray of sunshine. A childhood feeling of playing in the courtyard of your grandma’s home in the summer holidays. At times the pleasant breeze of a summer evening makes you realize as you have already witnessed these feelings before while sitting in the company of school friends on a random evening arguing on the things that never had mattered.

At times when you struggle to achieve a goal from a long time and suddenly you are able to get it, a kind of feeling triggers in you, “oh that’s not the destination what I was thinking of”. It is a kind of feeling that pours out when you realize that the goal you were struggling for precipitously ended-up and you are left with nothing but a feeling of emptiness. At that time life and struggle suddenly becomes a meaningless entity for you. It reminds me of the perfect depiction of this fact in the movie Castaway when Chuck Noland comes back surviving the lonely island after four years where he never thought of reaching back home meeting his wife. However, when he reaches back, the feeling of nothing left in his life anymore, nothing to struggle for nothing to live another day intensely remorse him.

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The life pauses when friends leave us for the good as we have never thought of living without them. Even though if you don’t meet such friends daily, you always realize that they are somewhere near to you, it is their positive vibes which makes you feel comfortable. Even if you never meet them for days but you have a kind of feeling that they are near to you. But when they go far-away, it gives you a feeling of despair that you may not be able to see them again. Perhaps a feeling that there is nothing common left between you and the paths have become so indifferent that they have suddenly become strangers to you. You can virtually see them disappearing in the flood of humans.

Especially goodbyes to the friends are always so weird in a way that you were in their company a moment before, not much worrying that they are going to leave and then in the next moment they had already left you and you anxiously realize that they are nowhere near. A feeling appears that somethings have been left unshared some words have been left unspoken and some emotions never told. But perhaps this was the best time when you have let them go.

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It is better to get out of such sentiments quickly to console your spirit and make it realizes that they are the part of the beautiful past and cheerful memories. You need to carry on with your life, set new goals to meet more people, make friends, and devise a new cycle of making and losing. One should hope for their prosperous future as you have provided the best out of you, no matter where they live, a bonding will exist which will never end. People are not bound to be with you always but good wishes always connect you with them to make them realize that someone is there at a corner of earth smiling for them at their success. So this bond continues until one day you become old sitting in the courtyard of your home remembering them and sending the energies in the form of an evening summer breeze which travels to them and makes them feel the same for you. Together this positive energy surrounds the earth where such pure sentiments make this world a beautiful place to live in.

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