Is nostalgia good for us?
Barbara Binland is the pen name of a senior, Julie Grenness, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She is a poet, writer, and part-time English and Maths tutor, with over 40 years of experience. Her many books are available on Amazon and Kindle.
How do you connect with your past? Now we are in our golden retirement years, we can improve our attitudes by reflecting on times gone by, so long past. Who shaped your life today?
Nostalgia can be a bittersweet experience, but it can also be positive. Reminiscing on the past can improve our mood, like old songs, old movies, old sporting heroes, or old favourite stories.
We are the living legends, like time capsules. Nostalgia in any form can raise our spirits, to realise some parts of our identify which never change, despite the 21st century.
We can recollect on our memories and friends, now gone.
Nostalgia can be like a tapestry, or the threads of our days, old and new.
Over60, do you like to reminisce? Food for thought…
I REMINISCE
I reminisce by this railway siding pond,
Musing on rail relics rattling on,
Recalling lives and times bygone,
The lonesome call of distant steam trains,
Eras that may never come again,
I see they’re gone nowhere in particular,
Replaced by planes and transport vehicular,
I imagine queues on foggy platforms,
Awaiting the misted trains’ shadow forms,
Standing by, expecting the status quo,
I blink my eyes, where did they all go?
Looking backwards along yesterday’s track,
I’m no kid any more, get off my back,
I reflect and reminisce,
Nostalgia is for the times we miss,
I’ll reminisce by the railway siding pond,
I recall the times and lives bygone,
As ghosts of rail relics keep rattling on…