“There’s an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It’s when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.”
― Choke
When love has ended
Each night’s dreamed beginning is
blessed deja vu.
Reena Saxena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge. Reena says:
The prompt word for this week is
Déjà vu
photo of couple by Edward Eyer
Tao Talk 
Did you ever see the movie The Notebook? I thought that was beautiful. James Garner, but it is only 5 or 10 years old.
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I saw it and yes it is a wonderful movie. Quite a tear-jerker.
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I thought of it immediately I read jamais vu – to have to kind of catch up with things from a script, must be awful.
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I learned something new in your post today. I hadn’t heard this word before.
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Glad you learned a new term today!
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😍👍
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Some days really are jamais vous…like you slipped into an alternate universe. (K)
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I’d come across ‘veja du’ for the same things. Must be a severe memory lapse if it truly happens. In dementia or old age problems, they remember things that happened 40 years ago, but not that they had breakfast half an hour ago.
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Reblogged this on Reena Saxena and commented:
Jamais Vu … by Jade Li/Lisa
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and so returning to the vey place they started (to invoke T.S. Eliot)
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❤ so cool!
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Thanks Lisa 🙂
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Beautiful Haiku. Both words are new to me. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks and you are welcome, Indira.
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