I’m 30 now but in my early twenties I wrote about how I’m nostalgic for a time when I didn’t exist - when my parents were studying in different colleges in the same city unaware of each other, how I wish I had met them then etc. As I grew older I realized this is because I didn’t truly know them even after I was older, that’s where it stems from. I try to get to know my mom better now cos it’s a way to know her younger self too. It’s interesting cos now I almost try to bat any nostalgic feelings down with practicality.
I smiled when you said you’re nostalgic for the childhood you didn’t fully experience. This was like revisiting a younger version of me, and beautiful 💜
thank you so much for saying this you have no idea how much this means to me. as i’m growing older i’m figuring out more about my parents and why they’re acting the way they are, and it’s both heartbreaking and freeing to know that most of the time it wasn’t your fault but also knowing that that’s who your parents are… if you know what i mean. and i totally get you when you’re saying you want to know and meet your parents when they were younger because it seems easier to try and understand what experiences shaped them.
i think you nailed it with nostalgia being correlated with how quickly the world is changing. so much can change in just a ten year span and that's nuts. i'm not against change, but keeping up with the constant change feels impossible. it doesn't give us time to savor anything anymore. so i love when nostalgia hits because it feels like my brain is savoring fleeting moments.
"like visiting a childhood home that now belongs to someone else. " this hit me because we moved houses in 2018 and i miss my childhood home so much i wish sometimes we didn't move at all. those walls have and hold more memories than the present ones do. thats why that will always be a home and this will always be a house. because times were simpler back then. i needed to worry about the present. but now, you take one step and you have to think 20 times before taking that step. its like as if the future is just death's sibling- one wrong choice and boom, you're done (which i know is not the case, but it does feel like that). i miss where playing hide and seek for 2 hours used to be the way i spend my time and not by sitting and responding to emails.
I’m 30 now but in my early twenties I wrote about how I’m nostalgic for a time when I didn’t exist - when my parents were studying in different colleges in the same city unaware of each other, how I wish I had met them then etc. As I grew older I realized this is because I didn’t truly know them even after I was older, that’s where it stems from. I try to get to know my mom better now cos it’s a way to know her younger self too. It’s interesting cos now I almost try to bat any nostalgic feelings down with practicality.
I smiled when you said you’re nostalgic for the childhood you didn’t fully experience. This was like revisiting a younger version of me, and beautiful 💜
thank you so much for saying this you have no idea how much this means to me. as i’m growing older i’m figuring out more about my parents and why they’re acting the way they are, and it’s both heartbreaking and freeing to know that most of the time it wasn’t your fault but also knowing that that’s who your parents are… if you know what i mean. and i totally get you when you’re saying you want to know and meet your parents when they were younger because it seems easier to try and understand what experiences shaped them.
Wow.
“And, yet, in these thoughts,
Myself almost despising,
Happily, I think upon thee.
And then my state,
Like unto the Lark at break of day arising from sullen earth,
Sings!
At heaven’s Gate “
Loved this!!!
Nostalgia is a feeling. We can feel it at any age. 😊
I have the same views on nostalgia as well.
Even I wrote a post about it on my publication
It’s called
Nostalgia is a mind’s trick.
Great read!!♥️
i think you nailed it with nostalgia being correlated with how quickly the world is changing. so much can change in just a ten year span and that's nuts. i'm not against change, but keeping up with the constant change feels impossible. it doesn't give us time to savor anything anymore. so i love when nostalgia hits because it feels like my brain is savoring fleeting moments.
"like visiting a childhood home that now belongs to someone else. " this hit me because we moved houses in 2018 and i miss my childhood home so much i wish sometimes we didn't move at all. those walls have and hold more memories than the present ones do. thats why that will always be a home and this will always be a house. because times were simpler back then. i needed to worry about the present. but now, you take one step and you have to think 20 times before taking that step. its like as if the future is just death's sibling- one wrong choice and boom, you're done (which i know is not the case, but it does feel like that). i miss where playing hide and seek for 2 hours used to be the way i spend my time and not by sitting and responding to emails.