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During a full week in Myspace, I changed my mood from mischievous to nostalgic. Once done that, I started to receive messages from readers asking me what was wrong – given that some considered that being nostalgic was a bad thing in itself.
But I don’t think that being nostalgic for a week is such a problem.
So, here is the question of the week: how do see nostalgia?
P.S : For the next weeks, I shall be posting here the questions of the week under written form given that I will be travelling.
This is when you realize that the events of the past were important and valuable.
I am just in a nostalgic PC-blog-mood.
i feel nostalgic when i think of my younger sister i lost few years ago. Makes me sad. but whenever i think of her and of all the moments we spent together, her laughter,her scoldings, of the mischevious things we did..it always brings a smile to my face.
A bitter-sweet feeling. That’s how i describe nostalgia.
Don’t know the wrong or right of it. If you know please tell me.
Keep up the good work.
Keerti
I was searching for some information, trying to expand on what I had written. I guess being nostalgic about remembering and what it means…
http://annieqsyed.com/2009/11/what-we-remember/
I feel nostalgia by the time emptyness arrive to my heart. When the roads i have been walking on seems to be enless. Thats when i need nostalgia next to me. Because i think it help us to reorganize or thoughts. To make them clear enough to keep going with our lifes. Talking about business, love or any other issues we might got nostalgia brings us the magic moment of flying back at the point we need in order to make the next step. I love nostalgia when i need extra courage in my life. Even if i remember a situation that i got bad results, thats where i take my extra punch to make it done. And if i remember a situation when i got fully blessed, i got stronger. So i beleive if paulo, such a person with severals and superdupper experiences of all kind, feels nostalgia in his heart, thanks God!! He’s still humble! He needs to look back and dig in his hearth and feelings in order to continue with his great and beautiful labor of taking our daily-walking-lives and fill our souls with his experiences. Lets have just the neccesary days with nostalgia in our lifes, so we can keep on dreaming and keep on reaching or daily goals. In such and empty world with more people just trying to be selfish and worried about making money, i stand up and give paulo an applause to be nostalgic. The man is working. The man is dreaming. And the man will keep on doing what he does at best. Best Wishes And Regards!
Paco que hermoso lo que escribiste wow!!
Cood afternoon. =)
As for me, nostalgia itself is neither bad, nor good.
But if it helps you to pass through hard periods of live, if it inspires you to move forward, you shoud better to save it in your soul.
In my opinion, sometimes nostalgia means that you feel it hard to get accustomed to the new environment, you have difficulties and you start to live in your dreams, which prevents you from going straight forward, when you have to change yourself in the new situation.
So there may be two kinds of nostalgia. If it saves you from extra stress, you should remember some periods of live, which inspire you. But if it starts to suppress you from moving forward, you should refill your soul with optimism about the future.
With love and best wishes,
Ivan. =)
Olá Paulo!!Sou uma grande fã sua, desde que li o primeiro livro seu aos 12 anos “Brida” desde então venho acompanhando seu trabalho e adoro!!!Tenho fascinio por seus livros!Parabens por todo seu merecido sucesso! E ah tambem tenho fotos com seus livros, vi hj no fantastico sua entevista e gostaria d elhe mandar tbm minhas fotos!
Grande beijo
Estou escrevendo em portugues pq meu ingles concerteza não é nada intendivel! rs
“Nostalgia” acho que é o momento onde fico mais sensivel e vuneravel…e queira ou não tenho que encarar os fatos de frente.
oi! Estava procurando um comentário meu, mas acho que me perdi no meio dos w,y, ing … pedi permissão para comentar em português, acho mais espontâneo assim. Confesso que nos últimos dias desenvolvi um vício, estou lendo bastantes coisas sobre você.Comprei seu último livro, mas preferi começar a ler sua biografia. E sempre volto aqui.Estou achando fascinante algumas hitórias, mas o mais confuso é que quero te fazer mil pergundas por segundo.Confuso, sim, porque minhas “dúvidas” parecem infantis no meio de tanta história.Bom, enquanto isso, continuo com essa inflamação aguda, após ser picada por alguma espécie do coelho sp.
rs. um abraço!!
Nothing personal, Anica. Sometimes I feel a great need to speak in my original idiom, the Portuguese. In this case I know that my message can be understood by the blog’s owner so I prefered to do that way. (And as you can see, my English is not so good) Good luck f/y.
Anica…i guess we come from the same part of the world since u r a Tose Proevski’s fan (well also Bregovic) ..
Greetings!
i, sometimes im nostalgic.. in means that i want sometime to be alone with my self… but its not wrong to be nostalgic…. its just a matter of that ur looking some missing part of yourself….
nostalgic… in my personal opinion, i agree with you Mr. Paulo… it is not bad to be nostalgic sometimes…
dear Mr. paulo,
by means of your book., you touched my life… now im fun of reading, and im starting to love it.. and thats because of your books…
thanks for you Mr. Coelho
love,
paula…
To Ismael, Yahaira, Juca Filho I´m sorry I don`t understand you, my friends
Nostalgia, es una sensación que algo nos falta o la añoranza de algo que ya paso. Bueno siempre paro nostálgica así que bueno. Gracias por poner este post, es muy bonito leerlo, me reconforta.
Why are you playing with me
Zahir
Nothing bad in being nostalgic for a week or a day. And nothing bad, also, I hope, in writing in Portuguese cause I am brazilian, too, so… Desde que não se transfira, penso eu, o foco da vida para o passado, a nostalgia é como um relatório de lembranças do percurso, daquilo que faz parte da nossa construção. Se bem que alguns dicionário já definem a nostalgia como um sentimento de tristeza, abatimento e isto já demonstra o quanto já há uma pré-concepção sobre o termo. Mas eu acho que o teu speech sobre o assunto já trouxe à baila outra questão bacanana que pode ser abordada aqui, Paulo, relacionada ao fato que vc descreve das pessoas começarem a te escrever perguntando o que estava acontecendo, por que a nostalgia, etc. É o fato muito corriqueiro de se tentar “atender” e se disponibilizar a dar apoio ao “sofrimento do outro”, quando , na verdade, se está ocupando do seu próprio, projetado… Até onde essa é uma forma de mascarar e postergar este trabalho de se “auto-encarar” de frente? E até que ponto esta oferta é uma oferta vazia, uma disponibilidade meramente simbólica, enfim… Por aí. Sorte pra vc, um abraço fraterno.
desde mi punto de vista no hay nada de malo en la nostalgia, es mas , me parece buena porque nos hace sentirnos que realmente estamos vivos; que cosas que ya dejamos atras, sean buenas o mala, sentimos nostalgia cuando la recordamos porque formaron parte de nuestro camino en algun momento de nuestras vidas………..
Saludos.
Ismael.
Can I be the first to say that it’s not what it used to be?
[gets coat]
Thank you Jelly for filling my heart with lovely music. Yanni is a true genius. Some of the songs a heard and liked is Nostalgia reminds me of one of your books, The Storm and World Dance. His music reminds me of Balkan music like Goran Bregovic and Tose Proeski, my angel…
Yanni by the way reminds me of a friend who also is a genius in ingenering, he also plays the piano!
The Show must go ooon…”Queen”