Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Nostalgia



A wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time


A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.


longing for something past


A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.


a wistful or excessively sentimental sometimes abnormal yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition


Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness