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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