- Wed Oct 09, 2002 2:32 pm
#30969
I was walking along in the countryside the other weekend when I smelt one particular variety of plant or flower that took me back to when I had done the same walk about a year ago. Well, you know how a particular smell or piece of music somehow bizarely transports you to where you heard/smelt it last and that you feel the same feelings as you did then.
Now when this happened to me I felt a sense of sadness at how I felt a year ago, with slightly different attitudes, feelings etc., it all seemed so good a year ago. But then, I thought; no, actually I wasn't happy at all that time a year ago. So my question to you is:
Was I really happy a year ago when I thought I wasn't.eg. 'You don't know what you've got until it's gone'.
Or was I actually reminiscing on a past that wasn't actually there. eg 'Looking through rose-tinted spectacles'.
Now when this happened to me I felt a sense of sadness at how I felt a year ago, with slightly different attitudes, feelings etc., it all seemed so good a year ago. But then, I thought; no, actually I wasn't happy at all that time a year ago. So my question to you is:
Was I really happy a year ago when I thought I wasn't.eg. 'You don't know what you've got until it's gone'.
Or was I actually reminiscing on a past that wasn't actually there. eg 'Looking through rose-tinted spectacles'.