Nostalgia
 

Is it something you have a lot of? If so, what period in your life is it you're nostalgic for? And if you don't ever feel nostalgic why not?

I only ask because at the moment I've been getting it a lot recently and tbh, I hate it. It's mainly for the clichéd age of 15-17 when the discovery of new music was this incredible journey, I was watching films that consistently blew me away. This is before cynicism kicked and was instantly in the side of "this will be shit" rather actually giving things a try. That mindset is one that took me a LONG time to get out of. Oh, and playstation was a massive thing. Jesus, I was hammering that computer at that age.
And yet I know there was a lot in that I period I wasn't happy about at all. So why am I consistently looking back on it like it was sunny all the time and things was just perfect? Guess that's what nostalgia is, right?

Also, I think it can't be understated the massive difference from before 9/11 to post 9/11. That moment is one of the defining moments where seemingly everything changed.

Nostalgia plagues me constantly for both good and ill.

Nostalgia plagues me constantly for both good and ill.

Nostalgia that drives you to re-encounter something you previously loved is good.

Nostalgia that keeps you from enjoying the present moment because it cannot hold up to a "perfect" "idealized" past? NO GOOD

as told by a dirty spambot

I think people who celebrate nostalgia should be thrown in jail

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