Looking back a bit on past years, one inevitably feels nostalgic for some objects; for those of my generation born in Italy, for example, it is often linked to memories of the 90s.
However, I don't want to talk about this today, also because I have already written a post on this topic.
Of course if you want to go and read it again of course I'm glad!
I was reflecting on what could be in the future, who knows what we will actually miss in these times we are living now; in the 2000s things are really very different and technology has made great strides, if today I remember the phone booth with nostalgia I wonder if in twenty years it will be the same for the smartphone perhaps.
I confess that while I have this thought, in my mind, the answer already arises spontaneously: I really don't think so!
It probably won't be like this since it's not possible to predict the future, but I have the feeling that certain objects from the past cause us sensations also because they intrinsically carry something romantic within them.
Many of the things that today we can define as "trendy" and in any case in common use no longer seem to possess that prerogative, a bit as if romanticism is diminishing as time passes.
Obviously mine is a discourse merely tied to things and, probably, certain ways of thinking of mine also depend on the fact that I am not a person too tied to objects.
In life I believe that people are important and, surely, if someone were to disappear from my life I would miss it, I don't think I can say this about a computer, for example.
Obviously, when I say that some people could disappear from my life, I always try to think positive and therefore, we probably lost sight of each other because he became a millionaire and moved to the other side of the world.
If I think about myself, about my character, I have to admit that I am a little nostalgic, the ones I feel are never negative sensations; I happen to think back to when as a child my parents dressed me up as a ninja turtle and I feel a warmth in my chest; however, it is a feeling of well-being and not something that saddens.
By the way, I was Donatello!
I believe that good memories always bring joy, obviously if you know how to live them; this also applies to objects.
Thinking about it carefully, I think it all depends on what we tie to a given object.
Precisely because I do not give a value per se to material things, probably what binds me to something is the memory it generates in me, the sensation to which it is linked.
So maybe yes, the smartphone won't cause me melancholy as an object of worship, but I believe that, looking at some photos that I will take in the coming years and also some that I have already taken, that devilry, if it no longer exists or will in some way be radically changed it will cause me nostalgia for what is connected to us.
Who doesn't feel a warmth in their chest thinking back to the object with which they took the first photos of their little girl?
It is not the object itself that causes those sensations and perhaps not even the photos but the feeling that binds us to the subject of those photos and which, almost inevitably, also permeates the objects.
Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know, but this thought started spontaneously in my head and made me take this flight in my mind, maybe I'm slowly coming back a little romantic, maybe I'm getting old and therefore nostalgia is a feeling that goes together always good as time goes by, I don't have a definitive answer, I admit it.
And I think there are many questions that still don't have answers in me, but they will come, I know, or at least, I hope so!
It's getting late and, despite my advanced age, today is soccer day so I'm going to run after a ball with my old friends... yes, if the ball disappeared I would remember it with nostalgia and maybe even with a little tear eh eh !
Thanks for getting this far, I know it's always hard to keep up with my thoughts, let alone you!
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English is not my first language but I try, please forgive any errors.