More recollections...

Lately I have observed that even smells can bring strong recollections. For instance, coffee..cappuccino. As soon as the liquid pours out of that nozzle a strong smell reverberates in my mind and livens up all the memory bits sleeping cozily in some nook and corner. This brings out an extreme sense of longing for the past. Some beautiful memory associated with it makes the situation even more unbearable and you stand there thinking, pondering, smiling at yourself, remembering that beautiful moment, that beautiful fraction of a nano second you had lived and somehow preserved in your memory. What gets preserved? What trigger can bring out a recollection is an esoteric puzzle to untangle which I dont want to get into lest I may become overconscious living over that recollection of mine.