nostalgia

meie sõber jaan (paremal külkaga võrril, mille ta ehitas koolimööblist ja torudest) korraldas haapsalus, oma kodulinnas, nostalgiapäevad. olin arvanud, et tal on ainult hulk vanu, enamasti nõukaaegseid, motikaid, mopeede, jalgrattaid. kuid selgub, et tal on sellest ajast tallel veel igasugu uskumatut kraami, näiteks sangari vabriku särk avamata kilepakendis. hiljuti kaebas keegi (ei mäleta enam, kes) kogu selle sovjeediaja nostalgia üle - et inimesed tahavad mäletada ainult head ja unustavad halva. mina olin siis laps. ja pean ütlema, et hea oli näha mõnesid neist asjust, mille välimuse olin ammu unustanud - võibolla olid need kusagil mälusopis alles vaid nimedena, justnagu mingite sümbolitena. näiteks oli kunagi üks mängutelefonisüsteem, mille me vennaga oma tubade vahele üles seadsime, selle nimi oli kaja. täiesti uskumatu, aga jaanil oli kogu see komplekt alles koos karbiga. mõned inimesed ikka oskavad asju hoida.
kuna jaan on üsna perfektsionistlik tüüp, siis oli see nädalavahetus haapsalus täielik reis tagasi aega umbes 20 aasta eest. kuigi ma ei olnud seal, et kõike näha, tahaks ikka öelda suur aitäh!
(our friend jaan (right, on the sidecar-moped he built from pieces of school furniture and some pipes) organized the days of nostalgia in haapsalu, his hometown. i had thought that he only had loads of old, mostly soviet-time, motorcycles, mopeds, bicycles. but it turns out he has all kinds of unbeliavable stuff left from this time, a shirt made by the factory sangar, for example, unopened in a plastic bag. recently someone (i don´t remember, who) complained about all the soviet time nostalgia - that people chose to remember all the good stuff and forget all the bad things. i was a child then. and i have to say, it was good to see again some of these things i had long forgotten how they looked like - maybe in some corner of my mind i still had their names like some symbols. for example, there was this play-telephone set that we had installed between our rooms with my brother and it was called kaja. believe it or not, jaan had the whole kit complete with the box it came in. unbelievable, how some people can preserve things.
as jaan is kind of a perfectionist, this weekend in haapsalu was a complete trip back to a time about 20 years ago. i wasn´t there to witness everything, but thanks a lot anyway!)