nostalgia Options

[brooklyneast05]

via sandy's tumblr

“Nostalgia is a longing for circumstances that no longer exist or have never existed. Nostalgia has a utopian dimension due to the considerable role that imagination plays in it. Hence, nostalgia is often about a virtual reality that cannot be actualized. In this sense, nostalgia is not always about the past; it can also be directed toward the future or the present. Nostalgia is a bittersweet longing as it combines the pleasurable feeling of the past with pain and suffering because of its absence; its content is very positive, but its absence generates pain.”

are you a nostalgic person?


also on the same note, do you remember the past well? i remember the past very good. i remember a ton of stuff that happened to me as a kid or at school etc etc. i have friends though who just don't remember hardly anything from their childhood. i don't get why. it's really weird to me. i'll tell them to tell me a story from when they were a kid and they don' really have any. i have a million stories and feel like i had a really eventful/fun childhood with good times.

[Joanne]

I think I'm a nostalgic person. I often catch myself thinking about how awesome life was back when I was younger, free of worry and stress. And I always daydream about hypothetical things, like what it would be like if something totally crazy happened -- how would I react, what would other people think,... but then again, I guess everyone experiences that.

As for your second question, I don't know. I like to think that I remember the past well, but I always have a feeling that I tend to exaggerate things when I think back, good and bad. And the weird thing is, I'm not quite sure if most of my memories are actually memories, or just things I remember from watching my childhood home videos so much when I was little. Does that make sense?