Nostalgia

By Lowell Silverstein

The other day, I read a journal that I wrote four years ago. One of the entries was about how I’d been rereading someone else’s online journal that I’d first read six years earlier. He had put the journal online six years before that. He had written the journal three years before that. In the journal, he wrote about events that had taken place three years earlier. One of the events he described in the journal was reading a journal he had written five years earlier. The earlier journal recalled events that took place five years before it was written. One of these events was a second-grade assignment to write a journal entry about what he had done the previous summer. This journal entry said that he had gone to Disney World for the second summer in a row and that it wasn’t as good as it was the first time.