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The Moments Which Were Never Lost

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From faraway Hyperborea, the North wind blows, bringing tidings from a blissful northern people in whose very being there resides a smile. The joyful days of Finnishness were left behind in Karelia, in its beloved song-lands. It is an Arcadia that still lives on in memories, passed on, in the form of stories, from one generation to the next. Yet in those unbreakable links of longing there lurks a danger: a constant temptation to deprecate and even dismiss the present moment. If your sense of the real, of the presently passing moment of the “now” is lost, then who bears the responsibility for that? An idealization of the past results in time deception, a chronological fraud where your entire presence is filled by the past. Or is it deception after all? Perhaps longing for the bygone is a part of essential humanity. Without it, being-in-the-world would become impossible, and Church Father St. Augustine’s philosophy would have no use. Existential homelessness would prevail. The time has come to make some confessions.