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Don Draper is mes­mer­ising as he demon­strates the kind of sen­ti­mental bond you can develop with an inan­im­ate object. “Nos­tal­gia”, he calls it, “the pain from an old wound”.

“Nos­tal­gia” is actu­ally from the Greek mean­ing the pain from return­ing home, or the pain of memories.

This kind of scen­ario

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has happened to me dozens of times, and I am sure it’s a highly relat­able tale. That “what if” feel­ing tugs at your heart’s core, some­thing akin to but not quite regret. I would not ordin­ar­ily think about this too deeply, as I’m of the opin­ion that past is past, and dwell­ing on it is unhelp­ful, because it can’t be changed. Still, self-reflexion can be enlight­en­ing, reveal­ing our thought pro­cesses, pur­pose, and nature.

I dis­tin­guish it from regret, because “what if” is forward-looking. It is about what might be, not what could have been. It is hope­ful rather than wist­ful. Today, I caught my reg­u­lar 8.10 express to the City; fell asleep in Com­pet­i­tion Law; was gif­ted an ice cream; had a chat with Mr. Japan­ese McGrumpypants in L & E that gave me a giddy little thrill; and dis­cussed the not so fine points of Farah v Say-Dee

Bully divx

. I wouldn’t have changed it for all the trains in the world. 

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