Comments on: Clinging To A Past That Doesn’t Let You Choose http://twentyorsomething.com/2010/02/09/clinging-to-a-past-that-doesnt-let-you-choose/ tonight we drink to youth. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:07:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Captive On A Carousel of Time http://twentyorsomething.com/2010/02/09/clinging-to-a-past-that-doesnt-let-you-choose/comment-page-1/#comment-6241 Captive On A Carousel of Time Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:27:41 +0000 http://twentyorsomething.com/?p=2796#comment-6241 [...] it because things have so changed since then? Is it because we long for the simple innocence of yesterday, when being in trouble [...] [...] it because things have so changed since then? Is it because we long for the simple innocence of yesterday, when being in trouble [...]

]]> By: Susan Pogorzelski http://twentyorsomething.com/2010/02/09/clinging-to-a-past-that-doesnt-let-you-choose/comment-page-1/#comment-6122 Susan Pogorzelski Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:43:12 +0000 http://twentyorsomething.com/?p=2796#comment-6122 Tania -- thanks so much! I would love to hear about this idea from your perspective, especially in terms of nostalgia and memory. Do you have a fondness for each place you've lived? Or, rather, how do you keep from becoming so attached, as I have undoubtedly become? I sometimes long for the time of my memories...I wonder if that's something that everyone goes through as things change, as we get older... So many thoughts, Tania, thanks for sharing a bit of your story :) Tania — thanks so much! I would love to hear about this idea from your perspective, especially in terms of nostalgia and memory. Do you have a fondness for each place you’ve lived? Or, rather, how do you keep from becoming so attached, as I have undoubtedly become? I sometimes long for the time of my memories…I wonder if that’s something that everyone goes through as things change, as we get older…

So many thoughts, Tania, thanks for sharing a bit of your story :)

]]> By: Susan Pogorzelski http://twentyorsomething.com/2010/02/09/clinging-to-a-past-that-doesnt-let-you-choose/comment-page-1/#comment-6121 Susan Pogorzelski Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:40:31 +0000 http://twentyorsomething.com/?p=2796#comment-6121 Lindsey: I'm really beginning to think we are ;) And I really think I'd like to live vicariously through you for awhile, yes please! You wrote a great post, and I think it's so true...A landscape may slowly change, but I think the reason for why it's so difficult to sometimes accept that is the fact that <em>you</em> have changed as well. You're not the same person as you were way back when and you never are going to be. What change has done is made way for something better...Interesting. Love the thoughts you've provoked; thanks for being here and I'm so glad to be in touch. Lindsey: I’m really beginning to think we are ;) And I really think I’d like to live vicariously through you for awhile, yes please!

You wrote a great post, and I think it’s so true…A landscape may slowly change, but I think the reason for why it’s so difficult to sometimes accept that is the fact that you have changed as well. You’re not the same person as you were way back when and you never are going to be. What change has done is made way for something better…Interesting.

Love the thoughts you’ve provoked; thanks for being here and I’m so glad to be in touch.

]]> By: Susan Pogorzelski http://twentyorsomething.com/2010/02/09/clinging-to-a-past-that-doesnt-let-you-choose/comment-page-1/#comment-6120 Susan Pogorzelski Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:37:03 +0000 http://twentyorsomething.com/?p=2796#comment-6120 Thanks, Sam! I think what's fascinating is the whole idea of nature vs. nurture. Does a place matter? I think it absolutely does. Maybe that's the cause for nostalgia -- because these memories, things, places have helped build who you are...Thanks for the comment! Thanks, Sam! I think what’s fascinating is the whole idea of nature vs. nurture. Does a place matter? I think it absolutely does. Maybe that’s the cause for nostalgia — because these memories, things, places have helped build who you are…Thanks for the comment!

]]> By: Susan Pogorzelski http://twentyorsomething.com/2010/02/09/clinging-to-a-past-that-doesnt-let-you-choose/comment-page-1/#comment-6119 Susan Pogorzelski Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:35:34 +0000 http://twentyorsomething.com/?p=2796#comment-6119 It used to all be farmland. Indeed. And that thought makes me kind of sad. Becky, I love your last line -- about how memories can teach you, how you can grow with them, not out of them. As someone who is constantly reflecting and looking back (and feeling guilty for doing so), this is such a beautiful thought. It used to all be farmland. Indeed. And that thought makes me kind of sad. Becky, I love your last line — about how memories can teach you, how you can grow with them, not out of them. As someone who is constantly reflecting and looking back (and feeling guilty for doing so), this is such a beautiful thought.

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