Today I´m bringing you another one of those "untranslatable" English expressions that I love, this one I think is a really cool metaphor: walking down memory lane, which we could loosely translate into Spanish as "darse un paseo por la calle de los recuerdos".
And that´s precisely what I´ve been doing this weekend: accompanying my friends in their own walk down memory lane, returning to places they hadn´t visited in many many years. It turned out to be a wonderful walk, both in the literal and figurative sense, and inevitably, we created new memories (thanks a million ladies!)
In Spanish, the closest thing to memory lane that I can think of is something called the trunk of memories, from a famous song by Karina:
Searching through the trunk of memories Any time in the past seems better than now. Taking a look back is good sometimes, Looking ahead is living without fear.
Another interesting metaphor, I think. And also during this weekend, I found myself searching inside that trunk, rescuing special moments with someone very close to my heart who passed away recently, and to whom I would have liked to be able to say goodbye.
Estoy de acuerdo en que de vez en cuando viene bien mirar un poquito hacia atrás y recordar con cariño las cosas que fueron, ya que al fin y al cabo, como decía my abuela, «aquellos tiempos trajeron éstos». Aunque eso sí, tengamos cuidado de no regodearnos demasiado, que no nos impida aprovechar el presente…
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault