Nostalgia vs. grief
Often, the nostalgia is corrosive: it encourages us to pine for something we can never have, and so drains us of the energy to act in the present. The grief, however, brings us forward. It hurts, of courseβoften terrifically so. But by accepting it, we escape the past, become aware of the present, and can start to imagine and build the future.
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