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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec on how you can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

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You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories. Stanisław Jerzy Lec The past, especially if was too blissful or too traumatic, can have a negative impact on our present. When left unchecked, it has the potential to manifest itself into emotional scars that can hamper our everyday lives. In such cases, it Read more…

Nostalgia is a light-hearted poem about the good old memories

Nostalgia

Nostalgia is in the brown half-toothed smile your sister flashes upon you after you buy her the chocolate-chip ice cream instead of the cheaper vanilla. Nostalgia is in the surreptitious smile you catch your mother in, as she stumbles upon an old song that must have rewound the time for her. Nostalgia is the echo Read more…