A blast from the past

Here's how the phrase dictionary defines it:

"Something or someone that returns after a period of obscurity or absence. It is normally applied to things that that were thought fondly of previously and are making a welcome return - particularly pop songs."

The context where I would specifically use it:

Someone from your past reappears in your life, recurringly or not, usually after 5-6 months of no news, when you least expect it. Could come from a text message, an e-mail or a phone call, which leaves you indecisive, unsure how to respond. That person usually appears in your life again when you're at the top of your game...when you're in control. As if that person had a radar that captures signs of well-being and happiness and was determined to mess it all up by creating confusion and playing mind games. Just because of one too many drinks. Go figure...

So "a blast from the past" should be used with a negative connotation and not for things or persons remembered fondly because a "blast" is that: something forceful and unanticipated, something potentially destructive.

We are the earthlings. Make the connection.

After watching this documentary that was passed on to me by someone who "sees it feelingly", I just have to share it back, with as many people as possible. This animal documentary is about society's dependence on animals for food, clothes, entertainment, pets and medical research. I don't have much to say, can't really, for I'm still reeling from the aftermath.

Warning: Scenes of violence and torture. :(

Here is quote from the documentary:

"We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err. And greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."