Why The Past Is Better Than The Present

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

Have you ever wondered why so many people have such an aching longing for the magical pictorial past? Why is a twenty-year-old sandwich, overcooked, but not forgotten, billions of times still tastier than freshly ground coffee and crispy croissant this morning? Or is a dress made of spiky brown-gray material prettier, better, and much more practical and durable than any of today's design solutions

Not because this is true and the sausage was objectively tastier, but the clothes, although terrible in appearance, were as strong as a soldier's shoe. But because often people have nothing in this today. It is empty and not filled with meanings or important events, pleasant meetings or warm hugs.

It does not have the ringing laughter of small, like you, destroyers of order, chaotically crawling on the floor and greedily chewing on the silicone bone of your Labrador. There is no man in him who never became your husband, because in fact you just wanted a status union, and not to be with him in "sorrow and joy."

And then, without these important things, you turn back, in search of what has not come true. And the past becomes more valuable than the present. Because there are a lot of pleasant memories in him and there are almost no consciously hurt and painful ones left. Because it contains the lost connections, which you miss so much today, but which you cannot return, because their time has irrevocably gone and will never return.

Because there, in the past, is a husband who has not yet fully realized that you are a lover of hysterics for no reason and will never truly love his children. There is the job of your dreams, which you did not go to, simply because you were too afraid not to cope with responsibility. There is your best friend, with whom you grew up together, but who, in his twenties, was tired of listening only to you and only to solve your problems.

But it is impossible to see it with your own eyes and realize it. Because it’s scary to stop and admit that there isn’t something very important in your life. Because it means recognizing your own choices and stopping looking for the culprit among children, neighbors, work colleagues, and even the government. And this means taking responsibility for them and living with this responsibility further.