Cadets and guests seated in a crowded assembly hall.

The VATUGA assembly hall in Vyborg, approximately January 2012.

Nostalgia

12/13/2021 · 1 min read

An uneven, vivid text about time, fatigue, and trying to hold onto meaning when the past weighs heavier than the present. A poetic note with sad irony and a personal voice.

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🕎 Psychotherapy✍️ Rhyme and Poetry

Nostalgia

Wipe your snot, son.

And we're on the shoulders of giants like dandruff, and all that's left is to choke out a “kek”,
spitting into the sunset river of eternity out in the sticks.

Man has grown narrow — I'd widen him.

I built myself a mini-Detroit: Erich Fromm is there, Shakespeare with him, and Schweitzer...
Life is boiling in the little town, liquid nitrogen,
we're not from the beach, but sand keeps falling...

Time taps buckshot on umbrellas.
Lay the hourglass on its side
to get the infinity sign.

Inhibited, lonely, hopelessly outdated.
But if I could give him one piece of advice,
I'd say: “Screw it, I'm not a therapist anyway” 🕎

P.S.
Photo roughly from January 29, 2012 — in some assembly hall.

Vyborg Aviation Technical School of Civil Aviation.
(VATUGA, Vyborg)

FAQ

Questions about this article

01How is nostalgia experienced in the text?

Nostalgia appears as a mixture of fatigue, loneliness, and irony in which the past returns through images of time, cultural figures, and a personal photograph from the author’s student years.

02Why does the author combine serious reflection with rough humor?

Self-irony does not remove the sadness; it creates enough distance to endure the pressure of time and the mismatch between past and present.

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