Nostalgia - it's delicate but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek "nostalgia" literally means "the pain from an old wound." Its a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards... it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called the wheel, it's called the carousel. It let's us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved.
For those of you that don't know what Madmen is, it's a tv show that takes place in the sixties where our attention is focused on a man named don draper and his job of being a creative director of an ad agency on Madison Avenue hence the name Madmen. This show has a special place in my heart. If I ever feel sad or mad I just go and turn it on to one episode in particular. There's an episode in the series I think season four called summer man and don has inner short monologues whenever he writes in this diary he has and it was the inspiration for this diary that I've been writing. I like the episode because some of his inner monologues describe how I feel or they speak out to me in such a way I take them personally. The has a special place in my heart,I feel like I can relate to the show more than any other show I've seen. I can relate to don cause he's a troubled man with inner turmoil but on the outside he's the most creative and slick guy you'll probably know. Over the years of my life I've tried to discover who I am and it's difficult to say because I've never been one person. I've adapted to the people around me and if they have good morals and respect I would take that from them and apply it to myself. I've also never truly had a father figure except my step dad. He's amazing but I was hardly ever taught anything moral wise so what I did was I get most of my father figure things from books,shows,games. I've turned out decently fine with now the fact I've looked up to fictional characters to get my morals. Don draper is probably the latest person I've tried to get some type of comfort from and I have because I've only related with him on what the good things he's done and said. I've also related to him on the terrible things like I said because I do feel his pain and anguish. The quote above in the beginning is from the best pitch don has ever done. It's my favorite quote from the first season and possibly the series. Everyone has a pain from an old wound and we try to cover that up with whatever we have next. But nostalgia isn't just about a bad pain but a good pain as well. We get nostalgia from old photos,home movies and most importantly memories. We get connect on the level of experiences and once those experiences are over we have wanting for them. We have an ache to go there again,to relive our memories and our happiness. That's our alittle twinge we have in our heart......that is our nostalgia.
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"Diary"
אקראיI've done diaries in the past but I got the urge to do one again because of mad men. I went straight to the episode of don on his own in his apartment ,writing down his thoughts.
