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beauty, gratitude, grief, growth, kindness, live and learn, Love, poetry, Remembrance, saudade, self-care, thank you
A deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for something or someone that one cares for and/or loves.
Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never be had again. It is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, and well-being, which now trigger the senses and make one experience the pain of separation from those joyous sensations.
Saudade describes a feeling both happy and sad, and might be most closely related to the English expression ‘bitter sweet’
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There's a certain shade of beauty
in remembering the
happiness
you once shared
with a former partner
Your trials,
your victories,
how much you've given to
and did for each other
It's a sickly sweet sadness that reminds me:
light/dark
happy/sad
joy/despair
are all two sides of the same coin
and
neither can exist without the other
So while moments of remembrance
(
especially when you're:
neck-deep in the miasma of loss
before the loss has taken place,
drowning in the aches of
should-could-would-haves
)
can bring you to your knees,
you can also relish
in the fact
that your shared
happiness
will never
be diminished.
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I beg you not to burn the mementos from those
with whom you once shared love and peace.
They are a piece of you,
you watered and nurtured one another for a time,
and you once were happy.
You can love them with a passive joy
even if they never speak to you again,
and in doing so you will find
the love that you
will hold for yourself once more.