Geç-mişli geçmiş zaman

Bir anın geçer geçmez 'geçmiş zaman' olmasından hep çok etkilendim. Geçen vakitler kıymetli oluyor benim nazarımda. İkinci el kıyafetlere ve objelere düşkünlüğümü de buna bağlıyorum. Beni yaşamadığım geçmişlere götürüyorlar. İspanyol ikizler de benim gibi nostalji düşkünü olacaklar ki Les Jumelles adını verdikleri internet sitesinden geçmiş kokulu aksesuarların satışını yapıyorlar. Üstelik fiyatlar da gayet alınabilir meblağlarda seyrediyor.

Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, yazdığı makalede nostaljiyi şöyle anlatıyor:

Nostalgia, which derives from Greek roots, but was coined, not in Ancient Greece, but by Johannes Hofer, a Swiss doctor, in 1688. This new disease was diagnosed as what Swiss expatriates suffered from when forced to leave their homeland to study, work or fight for their country on foreign shores. The longing for home could be aroused by anything from a smell to the sound to the sound of familiar music, much like memories are awakened for (post)modern nostalgics today, and the only way to completely cure this disease was a return home. Interestingly, nostalgia shared certain elements with another disease common in the seventeenth century-melancholia. However, whereas melancholy was a disease that mainly affected the intellectual, its heaviness of the heart seemingly emerging as a direct by-product of critical reason, nostalgia was mainly found in soldiers, sailors and those who moved from rural areas to the cities in search of a better life.