Sinister: If you're feeling nostalgia

[Kenneth P Y Chu]

Visiting your old University town is kinda weird.

You drive past the University park, it is stagnant, inert to time.  You have 
moved on, aged, yet everything else are still - the staggering trees still 
stagger, the buildings are still built, the passing girls who used to make 
you swoon still pass, and never aged one bit - yet you have, you don't even 
swoon any longer, you just sigh in deep nostalgia, when "Yesterday once 
more" by the Carpenters is being played on your stereo.

You still feel attached to it all but you have expired your time of stay, at 
least it says so on your plastic card.  You can still remember every muscle 
every bone of your abode for 3 years, but now you're merely dead skin cells 
that have fallen away, new ones have regenerated and all you can do is cling 
onto its shoulder before you get brushed away.

You still know your way around town, but every corner there is something or 
somewhere new that you haven't seen or been, that you think you must visit 
next weekend when you finish your lectures, only there aren't any lectures 
anymore.

Your friends are one thing that still seem familar, and you feel comfortable 
around them, yet on the back of your mind you feel strange that you're no 
longer part of their lives, and that to them you're more a guest than a 
company.

And then you feel strange that you should think so much.

Ken

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