flashbacks

[deird_lj]

You know how, sometimes, you can hear a bit of music, or smell something, and suddenly for a moment you're back, years earlier, hearing or smelling it for the first time?

Tonight, I'm in Munich.

Everything - absolutely everything, tonight, is reminding me of Germany. Even things that have nothing to do with Germany.

The weather is very cold, and that feels like Germany, and because it's so cold the car heater was on full-blast, which made the car smell like Germany, and my dinner tonight was exactly the right amount of saltiness for Germany, and I was looking at the earrings I made, and getting flashbacks to cross-stitching in Germany, and the music is all like Germany, and the conversation is all like Germany, and...

Suddenly I'm really craving gummi-bears.



It's hard to believe that all happened over ten years ago.

Comments

[padawanspider.livejournal.com]

Last year everything was reminding me of Girl Scout camp until I finally went back there for a week. So I know what you mean :)

but what a privilege to know what Germany smells like! *envy*

[immer-am-lesen.livejournal.com]

Haribo macht Kinder froh! :-)
Aldi to the rescue, for the next bout of cravings?

I should bring you some Pumuckl to watch...(if you ever saw that in Germany, of course...)

[debris4spike]

Oh yes, songs, smells etc, they do all take me to places - sometimes happy memories, sometimes not. It's weird how you can suddenly be transported to another spot on the planet and another time ... Maybe that's why I like Spuffy time travel fics so much!!

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

Du bist Marcel Proust und ich fordere meine €5.00.

(Haben Sie auch diese Meme in Australien?)

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Ich bin ein Berliner?

*does not speak German*

Anyhow - I know EXACTLY what you mean. I was going through my things today, cleaning stuff out, and I found all of these letters my first girlfriend wrote to me - which sounds adorable and romantic until you hear that they were all dramatic and fighty and emo and typically female - and it all just felt SO familiar. Especially cause they still kinda smelled like the perfume she put on them. O.O