Nostalgia or Neuralgia?
It’s strange how a memory can return to you, from seemingly out of the blue. Maybe something triggers it on a sub concious level, I don’t know.
Take for example a few moments ago, I was sitting, drinking coffee and gaming. When all of a sudden I remembered my old friend Dean Mackie. Our friendship was …odd, you could say. We knew each other from my gran living on his street while I was growing up. Then coincidentally we were put into the same tutor group at secondary school. That’s neither here nor there though. What I remembered particularly was when I used to go out to his house almost every day. The first time I went around to his place we ended up going around to another guy’s house who he knew, and played Medal of Honor: Underground. Not the best game in the series but I have alot of good memories of sneaking out of school in our first year, during lunch hour to play it at his house. There was usually me, Richie Grey, David Carr, Johnny Overton, Mackie, Stan and me, crammed into his living room to play on the North African levels. Killing German spies wearing those white linen suits and the little red fez hats. The memory that returned in particular was a day when we’d skipped getting a proper lunch because it was pouring down with rain, so we just bought a load of junk from the newsagents and ran through the soaking wet to play medal of honor. I stood in front of his fire to try and dry off and warm through again. It was pointless of course, We went back out in it an hour later to go back to school. Well anyways that was one of the memories. The next was when I used to go around to his place in our camoflage gear and go out with his air rifle up to the fields and shoot stuff. Nothing living of course. Just whatever caught our eye usually. If it wasn’t shooting it was fishing up at Pontop Pike Pond. Or “The Pike Pond” as we called it.
Well I guess you’re wondering about the neuralgia bit. That’s just something that returned to me when I was typing this, from an English lesson in school. We were studying Journey’s End I think it was, and we watched the Film Aces High, with Malcolm McDowell from “Clockwork Orange”. Anyways one of the characters complained of suffering from Neuralgia to avoid going back into combat. However one of the people in our class, during our review of the film, said he was complaining of Nostalgia. The English teacher, Mr.Ogden, made a few jokes about it.
Well thats probably it for today. Unless of course I have anymore crazy memories coming back to me, that I feel like sharing.
Stay safe folks
Phil
