Found some school friends from the past through face book. Some of them were my class fellows from 1st till 10th grade. Its a huge deal for a guy who entered his 40’s to find some one who was your friend when you were 5 years old .. last time I talked to some of them was over quarter of a century. I know some of you are not even that old ..
Nostalgia, any way hits you after you are 35 .. that is when you realized that how much water was passed under the bridge.
we realized that 3 of our class fellows (all girls) even passed away .. they were all quite young .. 30’s is not the age to leave this world.
My dad always talked about Jabalpur where he was born and spent early part of his life. I can never forget Karachi, though never visited the city in last 10 years.
Open the vault of your memory bank here, share your nostalgia. Something that you remember from your past, moments that you want to revisit if someone invented a Time Machine today
I wish my nani and nana could be with me today. I would want them to come visit me here.
Sometimes when I look back, I guess some of the best times were when I was in college. I have found a few old buddies from college and we talk once in a while. i even got in touch with the warden of my boarding school. Those days were so silly...so so silly, yet fun because responsibility hadn't quite entered our lives.
However, today is beautiful as well...it will be nostaligia 10 years down the road.
i think many times life is so fast and with mocing around and all sorts of challenges you lose track of people, and now its easy and getting easier, cheaper phoen calls, email, facebook, blogs, twitter,. u can stay connected.
one person I have been in constant contact with is someone I consider my first real friend, all the way back from grade 1, have not seen him in ages but we kept in touch with letters then phones then email and then facebook.
There are so many moments in my life that meant so much, but to me the most defining moments for me were when I came to US for uni, alone, independent, they were some amazing days. I remember it vividly and luckily am in touch with many people from that era.
Other defining moments were my early days in Philly, and studying in Rome.
Summers in London when I was in US, being there just chilling, playing in local leagues, just hanging out..we packed so much in those days.
every wonder how some of the best memories of days when you were really not doing anything, no agenda, just lazing, starting teh day with no real plan but then the days just got packed with so many things that you discovered, stumbled upon etc.
every wonder how some of the best memories of days when you were really not doing anything, no agenda, just lazing, starting teh day with no real plan but then the days just got packed with so many things that you discovered, stumbled upon etc.
that is actually quite right .. as I said in the thread of the same title, in Culture forum, Nostalgia's definition is when you remember life in its ideal form, and one aspect of ideal life is one with least amount of responsibilty
You studied in Rome? So why is it that with every post of yours we discover something new? Reveal yourself :ASA:
So did you go to the Vatican? See the Pope? Did you eat icecream outside the Colloseum? isn't it the best ever?
gelato outside trevi was better..or just by piazza espana. I loved rome, went to vatican and the compound of KNights if Malta..a smaller soverign place there.
Yup I studied in Rome as part of my international module. was there for a whole summer.I had a blast in Rome. we had classes 4 days a week and then 3 days so we used to travel all over and work on our peojects on the train. venice, florence, pisa, capri. we also had to go spend time in a different european country so myself and some friends picked switzerland and monaco :D most went to france though
undergrad I was part of a term long program that had us travel england, germany, france, belgium and netherlands, seminars at top unis in each country we would only be at one place for a few weeks but it was intensive immersion. loved every moment of it
Nostalgia has been with me for long, long before I even reached 30s. I remember my school days in Karachi then Jeddah then highschool in Karachi again... due to back-n-forth I have a huge bunch of friends, unfortunately we didn't have internet/emails back then and letter-writing was limited to few only.
When I came to US and saw people search tools on Yahoo, Bigfoot, and other search engines I searched for all my friends from schools/colleges :D.
But now that 40s is not too far away many of school-time friends are connected via emails, some I found on facebook. Times of no responsibilities ... sigh are long gone, now all we get is "bailout" talks :D
I dont think its your age.. i always feel a sense of nostalgia for something. which is weird b/c I never liked any of my classmates, dont have any freinds from more than 3 years ago, etc
I've had nostalgia for my high school. For some reason I just want to visit the campus and walk through those familiar corners and up those familiar stairs. It's only 10 minutes away from where I live. So, I've been thinking that one of these days.....on a Wednesday (since school closes early on Wednesdays), I'm going to go visit my high school....maybe even some of my teachers. It would be the perfect time. Being a teacher myself, I know that teachers will have an extra hour to themselves on Wednesday after the students leave.
However i have known much of life becuase,I was born in Pakistan, I joined army at 15, i was married at 18.Got my commision at 20, then i left to England immediately after.
So life for me has been short but prolific. I remember one thing most vivdly.
My homeland and the people who i knew all my life.
In particular i regret ever leaving my beatifull country becuase i lost much to gain little. I have travelld the world and saw things few men can ever wonder about but what hurts me is the loss of my homeland.
I cannot return till my education is complete. Even then i will never see the valley in which i was born because as i speak it is being built up like no tommorow.
For a man who's ancestors were Nomads it pains me to know there will be no more rolling fields, no more crops, no more grazing land for my stock, no more horses or cattle or goats. Oh how i wail in sadness at losing my home! I have a house in islamabad five years ago it bordered lush jungles. Now it will have an airport next to it.
I know they say it is for the good of my country but it still pains me to know that it is the end of an era. Must i move away to the plains in the north? And how long before some interfering government of mans law comes to tell me i will have to move again!
oh well i can only look forward to a sedentary life. No more wildness.:(
RedVelvet: Do it!! i went to my old secondary school a while back, just to see which teachers are still there, what the school looked like (bear in mind that i went to school wayyyyyyy back!!) and i met some old teachers and they took me to the staff room which was so weird... i felt like a student again!! And everything was sooo tiny... i started to get teary and the teachers were laughing at me...!!! They even invited me back to do a talk in their morning assemblies to each year group about University and Career paths etc..... :D
Last summer I was visiting my home town and I drove up to my HS. I had very mixed feelings, it seemed familair but NOT at the same time. It just didn't look the same, in fact it just seemed like any other building but at the same time I felt a sense of belonging???
Same happens every time I visit Pakistan and go to places I used to as a kid. I feel like I know those places but I DON'T!!! Everything just seems so unreal. :(
..
