Love’s Lasting Impression

There’s a word that captures a feeling we’ve all known, though it’s hard to describe: saudade.

It’s more than just missing someone or something. It’s a longing so deep, it lingers in your soul — a nostalgic ache to be near again to what is distant, to what once was.

Saudade is the kind of love that stays, even after things change. It’s the love that lingers when someone is no longer by your side, when a moment has passed but still echoes in your heart.

Saudade is what we feel when we think about those we’ve loved and lost. It’s that bittersweet yearning for a time or a place or a person that, even if we could reach them, could never be the same again.

Yet, it’s not entirely sorrowful. Saudade carries with it the beauty of remembrance. It’s proof that love — true love — leaves a mark. Even when things fade, that love doesn’t.

It’s the song that reminds you of a summer long gone, the photograph that captures a moment now out of reach, the scent that brings back the memory of a childhood home, a lover’s embrace, a laugh that used to fill your days.

In a way, saudade is what makes us human. It’s the way we hold on to the pieces of the past, not because we can’t move forward, but because we treasure what those moments meant.

We carry them with us as a reminder that love, in all its forms, endures.

So when you feel that pull in your chest — when you ache for something you can’t quite touch anymore — that’s saudade.

It’s the heart’s way of saying that love never truly leaves us, that even in the spaces of absence, love remains.

Who or what do you feel saudade for today?

Take a moment to honor that feeling, because it means that love once filled your life in a way that changed you forever.🌹