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.

[brooklyneast05]

yeah i'm a nostalgic person. i always look at the past and think man life was good. everything was better. i was happier, less worries. i made so many more memories as a kid. i don't feel like i make that many memories now.

that's a good point about opportunity vs shutting doors. i feel that way too i think, even though i don't want to. i constantly stress over whether i picked the right doors and whether i would be happier doing something else. i feel like i'm stuck with the doors i went through though. i mean yeah i could technically always go back and pick some other one, but that's not really convenient anymore since i'm too far down the hall.


i really do wish i was a kid again. people always wanna grow up. i don't think i ever wanted to grow up very much.