"Unipreme"

I knew the feeling when I kissed the man I was madly in love with for the first time. Though we've had many passionate kisses after that, it will never be the same as the first one.

You know the feeling too when you listen to the last album of your favorite music artist they release just before they pass away. Like with David Bowie.

You know the feeling when you open up that shoebox of your childhood memories after ten, fifteen, twenty years have passed. Like the old notes you passed in class, the Tamagachi and Gameboy, the cassette tape with the last cassette you ever recorded your voice on.

It isn't the nostalgia itself, but the feeling evoked from it by that particular moment with those specific items.

But the feeling does not always accompany excitement or happiness. There are times when the feeling is paired with sadness, grief, and/or anger.

You will experience it with each animal companion on their first and last day with you. You become increasingly aware of it as you stare into their glassy eyes and lift their weightless body.

We pause to let the feeling wash over us. We cannot stop it. So we let it wrap around us and sink us into its depths before it fades away like snow in the sun.