at first I thought it was irony...

but then I realized its merely a juxtaposition.

i'm always surprised when it hits. when you've pushed something/someone out of your mind so completely, that you are overcome by this memory that has found its way back. and the juxtaposition and comparing begin. and everything/everyone else pales in comparison.

and probably always will.

as French author Andre Gide reflected.... "nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness".

I'm not a linguist, or even a wordsmith, but....

Sometimes we need to trust our gut when using the English language. English is riddled with strange rules and exceptions, like "i before e, except after c", exceptions being ancient, atheist, feign, height, sufficient, society, glacier, deficient....the list goes on. Yet none of these words are inherently difficult to spell.

One thing that gets me every time is the misuse of words, and blatant fabrication of words. Specifically, I'm thinking of the common assumption that the root of conversation is conversate. REALLY people? Maybe it only seems apparent to some of us, but you do not "conversate" with some, you "converse" with them. Despite being used by intelligent individuals, and being in song lyrics, "conversate" is, in fact, NOT a word.

Other strange things in the English language:

the plural of box is boxes, but the plural of ox is oxen rather than oxes
mouse, mice, but house is not hice?
tooth, teeth, but not booth, beeth

some examples of strange pronunciation: (yet you'll probably read these sentence correctly....examples taken from www.vincentchow.net)

We had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
The dove dove into the bushes.
The dump had to refuse more refuse, as it was full.