nos⋅tal⋅gia
[no-stal-juh, -jee-uh, nuh-]
–noun
1. 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 nostalgia for his college days.
I want to go home. There is peace there from the madness. I am mad. I am part of the madness. But it doesn't fit me. I am lost inside of it.
...a little drowning...
How do you save a dying drowner?
Take her home.
Leave her loved.
Love the leaver.
In her home.
"Nostalgia," comes from nostros (a return home) and algos (a painful condition).
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