Sometimes Nostalgia Can Be Tough

July 21, 2006 - 8:14 PM by

Imshin, born and raised in Haifa, but now living in Tel Aviv, is disturbed by television pictures of her old stomping grounds.

Watching the initial shaky footage on TV, R.T. and I immediately recognized one of the spots in Haifa where rockets had fallen at lunchtime today. I haven’t been in that particular part of the city for at least twenty five years. Oh look, there’s a fountain there now, I thought to myself.

It’s hard to grasp that this could be Haifa, where I grew up. Sleepy Haifa, where nothing ever happened. It gives me this creepy chilling feeling, of horror invading my childhood memories. Do you know what I mean?

I got this feeling a couple of years back, when the bus I used to ride to school blew up, at the bus stop I used to wait at, killing school kids who now went to my old school. I hadn’t been there for years and years and there it was on the television screen, distorted by death and destruction.

It’s like something weird is happening in your mind. It’s like having a nightmare while you’re wide awake, in the middle of the day.

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