Like Nostalgia.

[bluebellrock]

I've been getting a bit nostalgic for things I've never actually experienced. T. said he wouldn't use the word "nostalgia" for it but that's just it. That's exactly how it feels. You definitely can miss what you never had! Here are some of the things I miss desperately:

· pennyfarthings

· dark, unassuming '50s diners (I dream about them all the time)

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[life_and_times]

This post is so classically you. It's some of why I love you. xxx

I'd like to delve further into why you feel nostalgic over things you never knew. I get it. I feel nostalgic for some of those things too. I wonder what it is?

It's similar to how I remember my grandfather talking about times gone by, the rest of our 'old' family who I never knew and my mother talking about growing up in that house in Gladesville. The house I feel like I know even though I was there for a few short weeks of my life.

[bluebellrock]

I think it might be because you just don't never hear about things like pennyfarthings anymore, and everyone's grandparents, the bearers of the old stories, are dead. It's possible it's the mere discussion of these olden day things that I miss, and I'm already bracing myself for when Mum and Dad die and - among other pities - I'll no longer be able to go to them with random questions about the past. Not that I do that too often anymore.

Gladesville, hey? Was it one of those gorgeous old houses with sunlight and verandahs and sturdy old trees? Sandstone or 1930s brick or something? Leadlight? Oh, laaa! Imagine owning one forever and ever - well, until you died.