As Khalil Gibran points out in The Prophet that even departure is sign of arrival because someone who leaves a place arrives a place. So Leaving is attached to arrival. They can’t be separated.
Bitter departure doesn’t dissolve in warm welcome but it lessens the intensity of the immense nostalgia. As a matter of fact, keeping oneself engaged can give way to recovery earlier than it is expected.
Leaving is not always a choice but a compulsion more often which leads to the store of pleasant experiences of the past ending in the sourness of the present.
Memories are perhaps the greatest impulse for the uprise of emotions. No matter what kind of memory it is, it is enough to trigger sentiments either negative or positive. Again, the positivity and negativity are subject to ones approach (the subject of positive and negative experience is already discussed in a previous blog post).
No doubt, sweet memories are the feast for the subconscious mind and a stable and working emotional faculty. Having memories that boost positive approach and optimism is a blessing for existence and a blessing for the time yet to come.
We don’t live for memories but they live with us. Pleasant memories uncontrollably evoke emotions that ‘lie too deep for tears’.
But the question is who decides what to remember and what not to? Is it we? Or mind? Or heart? Or any external factor?
Though this is not a mystery but it surely is dark room where all you have to find is a dot of black ink.
Al-Naveed Ahmad 