What is the antonym of nostalgia, a longing for the past? As far as I know, there is no such a word, but unfortunately, it exists in terms of behavior.
I remember
a few people who wanted to go to a special program in United States and they
didn’t have the visa. Particularly one person who just went to order her
passport called me asking for the weather at the place she was going in the US…
(to which she didn’t have ticket, visa and not even the passport!)
An image I
have in my mind: there are people who build castles in lands that don’t even
exist, and they start to live there. As it may happen with nostalgia, they are probably
frustrated with the their present and so the possibility of a future that is
different than the present they are living makes them leave this place… without
really leaving it, just an experience in her mind.
It is quite
risky; after all, they have to work, take care of their children, their own
health, to talk with friends and do all a person who must do in our society. People
who live in these future castles sometimes are careless in relation to their
present hut.
There is an
even worse frustration as sometimes it happens that their imagined future is
not what they were expecting. It may be totally different – a manor instead of
a castle – or a maybe unexpected experience – can you imagine to CLEAN a whole
castle??
If you
really want to live in a castle one day, start with one brick today, another
tomorrow… The future does not take place in our imagination but it will be the
fruit of whatever we are sowing right now.
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