Reflect on things you have done and savour those memories. These are the things that made you the person you are today, so you have a lot to be thankful for.
Tag Archives: nostalgia
Vintage
Enjoy nostalgic trips, but don’t wallow in them.
Rose tinted glasses will have altered your perception.
Nostalgia
Memories of past times can warm and heal us.
Getting bogged down with how things were, however, can distract you from moving forward now.
Create that distance, while keeping the memories alive.
Romance
Photos fade, but our memories remain.
Find romance in nostalgia, and keep it close.
A Lady of a Certain Age
When times are tough, we often hark back to days when things seemed better, when life ran more smoothly.
The issue with this is that we tend to only remember the good things, not the bad – the childhood summers that seemed to go on for months, the Christmases when presents were huge and we were not left wanting.
This rose-tinted view of the past is detrimental and can reinforce our connection to what has gone before, making us even less willing too connect fully with the present and look to the future.
Back in the day you had been part of the smart set
You’d holidayed with kings, dined out with starlets
From London to New York, Cap Ferrat to Capri
In perfume by Chanel and clothes by Givenchy
You sipped camparis with David and Peter
At Noel’s parties by Lake Geneva
Scaling the dizzy heights of high society
Armed only with a cheque-book and a family tree
You chased the sun around the Cote d’Azur
Until the light of youth became obscured
And left you on your own and in the shade
An English lady of a certain age
And if a nice young man would buy you a drink
You’d say with a conspiratorial wink
“You wouldn’t think that I was seventy”
And he’d say, “no, you couldn’t be!”
Divine Comedy: A Lady of a Certain Age