When a song you love reminds you of someone

I hate it how sometimes, things you value reminds you of someone that held a place important in your heart at one point but for one reason or another, this person leaves and they sort of taint that valuable thing of yours. Do you get what I mean?

It's like a song you love so much but it reminds you of someone that has left. Or something you did together but now that someone has left. It feels like that song you love so much, or that something you like doing, maybe walking at the beach, or even going for a run, has now become something to remind you of the pain or the sadness you are going through.

I know one day, that song, that place, or that little something I love doing will be mine again, and that memory that was associated with it will no longer have power to affect me. But during that transition, during that transition, it's sad.