Very very true. I miss my 3 year old self, I was so chubby back then. But now that I’m 13 it has change a lot, I was a lot happier when I was 3 years old
Sometimes I'm nostalgic for my childhood. The perspective of a child is pure. They live in a form of blissful ignorance. That's what people miss the most, I think.
My flashbacks is unespected and i dont know exacly from what era they are but thwy often happen when i visit some place and remember me playing there as a child, i even get deppresed because of nostalgia
I don't know why, but nostalgia sometimes makes me regret somethings I have done in the past, I guess it's taking a trip down into the memory lane of how much I could've made everything better.
I almost never comment using this profile, but I am gladly making an exception for this video. I am 24 years old, and the theme resonates strongly with me at this point in my life. In fact, I am dealing with this issue right now, and so was almost superstitiously shocked to see this appear in my subscriptions when I logged on. I've been through very intense and different chapters in my life, and though they were more painful than pleasurable, the current stage of my life is a very grey, neutral, somber one. Like the depressingly cold ashes left behind from a furnace. And when you go through a lot and enter this peaceful but empty, lonely stage... nostalgia becomes an addictive drug. You just want to feel alive and connected with others again, even if the people you long for were toxic. What you said hits the nail right on the head: "We tend to romanticize the things from before." I have quite a few songs on my phone that I sometimes listen to, just to bask in the memories. You rationalizing it - explaining how we are nostalgic for previous phases regardless of how terrible they were when we actually experienced them - really helped. Thanks a lot, Einzelganger. Your content is precious and helps more people than you may think.
I think part of the appeal of nostalgia is that it is safe. The past is gone, it is not a period of action but reflection; it is like a book or a movie that you have seen before and know how it ends and can be returned to for comfort and even the conflicts are now part of the plot and the pain distant over time. It is a safe oasis and a way to commune with people and places that no longer exist...and that includes yourself. Nostalgia takes you back to a younger time when you were a different person and life was fresher. However after analyzing my memories I realize many of the same problems I had in the past still linger and have never been addressed and overcome, thus making the present more difficult and the future dark and uncertain. This makes nostalgia all the more seductive. It’s a double edged sword.
Nostalgia for me brings so many flashbacks of me and my friends playing, or moments with my family, and most of them are happy and when i remember them i am happy but again.. Sometimes it makes deppresion deep inside of me bevause i fear of future and i really want to live in the past, but i cant... I am trying to live that good old moments again from time to time, but as older we are, we realoze that those memories will never be the same again, you camt bring them in present sadly... No matter how hard u are trying, and because of nostalgia, sometimes i cant live my life as bsfore... Its really weird
I want to get rid of nostalgia. I think more and more about past, about "good old times". At the first glance there is nothing bad, but I am so nostalgic that I basically live in the past, not caring about present and my own future. I am 26 but I feel like I there is nothing good left which is not true at all, but my constant nostalgic way of thinking (if I can put it so) makes me feel that way. This is the reason why I have not achieved anything substantial in my life for the past 3-4 years. And recently I broke up with my girlfriend. The city we met and lived for about 7 years became one big nostalgic (and tragic) place. I defienetely need to change the way of thinking, strive for future and achive something. But It is impossible if you always look back at good ol' times. So here am I, searching for how I can change my thinking patterns. Best of luck to you, make plans for future, live in present. You can make life quite enjoyable right now and right here, but do not trade your present and future for the long gone past. Upd: the overload of nostalgia basically devaluate your current life.
I'm exactly the same, feeling nostalgic specially regarding my adolescence, young adulthood and my hometown. I hope one year after your leaving that comment you have found more meaning to the present moment and what you were looking for :). Hopefully so will I.
I'm 24 and exactly the same. Especially with this pandemic. I don't want to grow older. I know what it comes with. So I feel demotivated and stuck in this void I'm in where I feel nostalgic all the time and try to keep doing things like play playstation and act immature. I don't want to grow up. And I know this too. This is why I have depression.
It’s interesting to read all these comments and realize how many people experience this. This video articulates my feelings quite clearly. At 70 years old, nostalgia has become more emotionally charged for me.
I never felt nostalgic, always pretty much living in the present and trying to make the most of my life. Then my mother died and I crashed. Mourning, grief and mild depression lingering for two years. She left an emptiness in my life that nobody can fill. That’s the meaning of nostalgia for me, now. Knowing that some people cannot be replaced, that the past probably was not the way I remember it, that I imagine things were better then.... but still... the present and the future interest me less. I have no plans, apart from trying to be useful to those who need me.
Facts bruh. Since my Dad died, it feels like everyone is already dead and they don’t want to accept it. Leading them to be stuck in limbo. It feels like I’m an observer of my own life, and I’m moving through time on some weird shit. Sometimes it’ll feel like the outside overstimulates my brain, to the point where I get light headed just from feeling the heat from the sun/feeling the wind👌
Interracial Suspect I know what you mean... I think... although I would not want to be so arrogant as to pretend we are going through the same kind of black tunnel, but sometimes the emptiness is almost overbearing... and what’s worst, nobody really wants to talk about grief and bereavement... just forget about it
@@interracialsuspect5300 i suffer because of nostalgia, its so hard to live that old good moment again and i dont know how to search help for that, i am always trying to live in present but i cant, it always bringa me back in past, and those memory flashbacks makes me sad and happy at the same time
Recently my grandmother died. I've been hurting since I know that the good times we had together are relegated to memory, and I can't make any new ones with her anymore. Sometimes I wish I could be a child again. They were very innocent times.
*Frodo* : _I wish it need not have happened in my time_ *Gandalf* : _So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us_
Nostalgia is perhaps nostalgia for being younger... it is perhaps an escape away from future death. It almost gives the illusion of eternity.. plenty of past times to think of and remember. Indeed, "a human rebellion against impermanence". Thank u for this
I honestly think that *Nostalgia* is the most dangerous and most powerful feeling humans have since it can create rifts between people or create bridges between them.
@ᜃᜌ̥ᜋᜅᜄ̊ ᜋ̊ᜎᜆᜐ̊ I honestly do not think so (in better words I have to disagree) as I look to nostalgia solely for the historical aspect (i.e. music, films, video games, cars, lifestyles, etc) that is severely lacking in our generation. So yes I understand that nostalgia can be a powerful "human" feeling however to say that it create rifts between people or create bridges between them is a bit redundant as it's really a lot of modern societal and social norms that causes these rifts instead of looking back at the past. Likewise, blame social media and blame our generation's obvious lack of identify for the failing that we are seeing today.
Nostalgia made problems to me as well as happines, i sometimes have mental breakdoen from flashbacks from the bast and sometimes, when i remember them, indeed its still hard to forget that moments, so im always trying to live thema gain and that makes me happy
I’m sometimes nostalgic for the worst times in my life, I was deeply depressed, but I was so young and innocent, emotions were so much stronger and intense, music sounded so much better and hit so much deeper. My life hasn’t gotten much better at all, I’ve just gotten more numb and jaded as time as went on. I Just hope and am now committed to a better future.
I was born in 96 and I feel the present day is just awful…every form of entertainment has worsened since about 2015 and I have no idea what to do about it
I mourn the past often, when I was young, before people I loved had passed away, being carefree, having many friends, relationships. It hurts to look back, but I would not give up these memories for anything.
I can't avoid nostalgia sometimes. Like today I watched a movie called "Surfs Up" from 2007. Thought it would be ok, since I didn't have many memories of the movie. I was wrong. By the end of it, a while wave of nostalgia hit me in the face, it hurt so much. It brought back other memories that relate to the ocean, throwing me to the early 2010's. I miss it.
Nostalgia shows the beauty of life in the past. However, we can never know how much accurate our memories are, because the amount of good feelings towards the past can change how we remember things. So, nostalgia is pretty much an ideal of life that we can only admire.
Really, I just hate getting older. There is literally nothing good about aging. Your health diminishes further and further the older you get, and things just become generally less exciting in life. I notice how much I've lost that sense of excitement and wonder I had as a kid, and I would kill to get it back.
I have the same problem, but i am just 15 years old, i daily have flashbacks of me as a kid and i am trying to live that moments again but in vain... You cant live in the past, you need to get over it and live in the present, i even start to animate, and that made me kinda happier because i have something new ro learn and do, but those things i have done as a kid.. Eill always stay attached to my mind and never go away...
You know what I think nostalgia is a dissatisfaction for the present and a praise of the past I'm having a problem and I dont feel like me so I'm stuck thinking about the times I was really me and that's how I feel just had to get that out there.
I don’t think it’s really a problem as what some people are thinking. I think it’s normal, and it lets us see how far we’ve come. Something about it makes me feel like it brings us joy especially into the present
I'm always haunted by my mistakes in the past, if only I used my brain right at those moments and did the right things my life would be so much different and better
Thank you, really need one. I just had a meltdown after looking back on old pictures. I was so anxious to go back, and it felt like it was the peak of my life. But i know it’s not true bcs we keep on moving from time to time. You reassured me more.
I believe that nostalgia is the pain we feel for the past that was not as pleasant as we would have wanted it to be. I believe nostalgia is longing for a past situation about which we had certain expectations and dreams. and when that situation in the past has ended, all those dreams and expectations died with it. something changed and we now know that whaterver we wished to came to pass can never be, because those conditions that were once, in the past, are no longer there. it's a kind of a wishful thingking imho. and nostalgia is the recognition of the death of that wishful thinking. eg: you had a friend and you had experiences. but as annoying, short minded or limited that friend was as a human being, he was there for you in some form or another. and deep down, you wished for him/her to be different. it was enticing that he or she could have changed and you would have been closer, but now, that the friendship has ended, or is still alive, but deep in your heart you know that it has very few days left to live, now you realize that all those things you thought about your friend will forever be just illusions. never fated to be real. now, there's no reason to lie to yourself. but you mourn those illusions, because for you, for a short while, they were real. or at least had the potential to become real.
I miss my childhoods family farm. The animals, the mysteries of the deep forest, playing with my brother and fishing with dad. I try to live a similar life now but it's not the same. No magic. Even if I could buy back the family farm, that place has changed a lot and is not the same. The chicken barn and the biggest spruce tree is gone. Even the trolls in the woods seem to have moved. My family has changed. The childhood is gone :-(
I'm always reflecting back on mu childhood days of running around the neighborhood with my friends. How swift it seems that we all split up now and who knew that it would end just like thay.
Weird thing is, it as not always the most cherished memories that are looked back on with a tinge of sadness. Even the mundane times can be missed. Jobs from your past that you neither loved nor hated, places you lived that weren't necessarily your favorite places. Much of it I think has to do with just missing the time you had ahead of you. You were younger and most things were still yet to come. And even if you don't necessarily have huge regrets to your life path, there is something irreplaceable about the times of anticipation. The times of dreaming of the future and its possibilities. Which makes parenthood that much more magical when the kids are very young. But this time you try and cherish the moments of their youth and they go by so fast. It's not always a feeling of foreboding aging and having fewer and fewer days ahead. Often it is just missing having the fresh young mind and a clean canvas on which to create new memories.
I am deeply affected by nostalgia pain. I went to this one summer camp from the time I was 5 to when I was 13. I’m now 15. And I remember the last time I went there was in 2019 and at the end of that summer one of my favorite councilors and I took a picture together on the last day and we told each other ‘’see you next summer’’… that was 2 and a half years ago and I still haven’t seen him or been to summer camp. Thanks COVID😤
I clung onto the past with such relentless, unwavering conviction that it nearly destroyed me. There was no doubt that things used to be easier and better, but I'll await heaven to revisit those beautiful feelings, the truth is we can never fully reclaim those times in this life. Even if we recreate the exact settings our minds are always changing and we cannot unlearn what we've already been subjected to. We all must move on and allow ourselves to immerse into the moment, no matter how painful, I almost couldn't let go, I was convinced that I was automatically stuck in the past 24/7 but through reaching out and slowly letting myself stop thinking about the past and taking the effort to part away from nostalgia and nostalgic events, I allowed myself to find new comfort and even happiness in the present, and stop comparing it to the past, which I had been doing for seven years.
I feel nostalgia for the good and simple times but I am not dissatisfied with my life now or anything. It's just nice to reflect. I'm glad I have those memories but I'm excited for the future too.
Nostalgia can be harmful as well as beneficial. It makes you realize that if it was possible to make good times in the past, it is worth trying to make good times now. I am very nostalgic about the place where I grew up and the time I spent with my good old friends. There is, however, a lot to regret. I hate who I was back then and would not want go back in time. But my good memories have a power to motivate and endow me with a sense of meaning. Do not repress nostalgia, but reflect upon it seriously and, as far as it's beneficial, extract what you can from it. You have to be able to negotiate with yourself, rather than reject gifts such as this.
My nostalgia is fairly recent, around 2010 I lost the ability to be myself in front of other people besides family. I like a lot of things I used to do as a child, like origami, craft stuff, decorating for the holidays and watching old cartoons. I work as IT and it's mentally exhausting, sometimes I need to play a bit or find refuge in things to cope with stress. Sadly I have to lie about my personal life around my colleagues, pretend I only do and like adult stuff, or I just don't say anything at all. They don't know the real me. I think they'd mock me for still liking kid stuff.
We hold onto the past as the future draws near. We hold onto memories as they unfold. We cling onto memories we hold so dear. A time before we understood the world, before all became so cold. When all was a mystery with such hope. But now that weve learned the truth, we sit and wonder, present moment in life we lose. Lost in the battles within ourself, the memories come to pass, a time and a person we let go. - Jsheetz Artwork
Nostalgia isn't always negative. I often think back on negative and positive moments as a learning lesson or with optimism. Suggesting it is with mourning or a dissatisfaction with the present is slightly hyperbole.
See my thing with nostalgia is that corporations now a days are trying to profit from it. They take What we love as a child and turn it into a cheap imitation for our money. In turn it ruins our experience. Keep what is in the past in the past.
Thank you for helping me understand that memories may not bee how reality was presented back then, and to focus more now on today. It´s inspiring how in these days one can just simply look up something that is not understood in oneself and there is amazing people like you doing videos about it, thanks a lot.
This video is really what I needed. I've been getting more aware of myself with your videos. Thank you for everything. UA-cam algorithm actually did something nice for once.
It’s so hard to get over the fact that u can never go back to some things even if I love it dearly, I logically feel the illusion but something in me knows things used to be so much better in a lot of different aspects
Some of the times i miss the most when I was a young child was the time Fall came about, all the way to new years day; It was just a mysterious magical time....and now its nothing.
Today I am battling nostalgia which is why I’m looking up these types of videos. I love it and hate it. It feels good to reflect but I become so sad at the same time.
But when you ONLY live in the present, why should you care about the future? The future is something that might be this way or another, millions of possibilities and therefore only a fantasy that distracts you from living in the present.
It’s so ironic that my happiest memories are also my saddest, it was so simple and fun, spending most my time playing with old friends on Xbox, now most of the games I played are dead and I haven’t talked to my old Xbox friends in ages, it was so much fun and now I can’t help but feel sad, even just a few years ago in highschool with my best friends is nostalgic, we’d talk basically everyday… It was all so much fun… I wish I could go back…
Nostalgia has a scientific reason behind it, it's routed in the way our brains convert information to long-term memories. On recall, a nostalgic feeling is invoked. Can't get rid of it without re-programming our systems (not going to happen). We can only learn to ignore it with willpower, if so inclined.
I am trapped in my own Nostalgia for years now, thinking about my happy past because I always feel that my present life is so miserable. Thus, I've been diagnosed with Anxiety and Depression.
Even if it's bad to cling to past memories with people you can't find even if you tried. I wouldn't forget it or even consider forgetting it even for a moment. Because as much as it hurts to remember them, I can't stand the thought of those memories not existing. The days you'd get with all your friends who lived near and shoot airsoft until the sun went down. The days I'd listen to creepypasta with my siblings. The days when my grandfather and brother would go out on the beach before everyone else woke up. The days when you'd get to the back of the bus to chill with all your friends even as the seniors you know each year are gone the next. Those days with my old friends working shitty retails jobs down until the day the last of us stopped playing around and finally put in that two week notice. Those days were the happiest days of my life.
This particular video was one of the most poignant for me. For years, I was nostalgic for my high school years. College and the military were turbulent years. Sometimes, we need the past to inform the present. Might it be that not just indicating that we are living in the past, but really how, "crappy," our present existence is. Considering that I was a Captain in the USAF during Vietnam, high school was a nostalgic time. Yes, we must live in the present, but the present can contentious and problematic. The only present I would choose to live in is what the Buddhist call, "Satori."
I remember when I was deployed overseas. I couldn't wait to go home. I just mostly missed my family. One day another soldier and I were talking about when we get home and he said you're gonna miss this place I was like HAAA!!! 🤣 You're a comedian. Trust me I won't. But our military base was surprisingly not horrible and actually kinda fun. When I was off I used to catch those funny foreign looking base buses. The drivers would always be playing upbeat middle eastern music. It was scorching hot outside and the air on the bus was such a relief. I would go to the PX on the West side, to the Bazaar, the USO eat snacks and call home or play on the computer or go to the Dfac, It was a very nice relaxing atmosphere in there though always packed with people. They would have all kinds of food, Seafood, Chicken wings, Sandwiches, Salad bar, fried eggs, desserts anything you could want and I would pile my plate up to the top lol then go back to my can and take a nap watching one of the two channels on tv 😆 cool times. Fast forward 12 yrs and now I often reminisce about that place in time. So I guess my fellow soldier was right. What I've learned is that no matter how bad times seem we should always try to find the beauty in it because one day we'll likely look back and miss the beauty that we could not even see.
"The giving tree" by Shel Silverstein fucks me up completely, I think now because it is nostalgic at its core. In the beginning life between a perfect being the tree and an unblemished boy is in a state of perfection. Then the boy starts to grow up and the tree suffers and at the end they are both ruined utterly.Fuck nostalgia.
“Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go fourth to meet the shadowy future, without fear, and with a manly heart.” -Longfellow
My past wasn't really that pleasant to tell you truth. I only highlight happy memorable moments, especially back in my highschool teen years. Scratch the memorable moments in my household.
I also miss my old days, but I'm 15 years old. I miss my 9 year old self and I miss 2016 when we shifted to our new home. I don't know why but they look like best days to me. I someotimes wish I could go back to those good old days. I also made some friends in Fourth class compared to previous year. I miss those days.
You can't turn back the clock you can't turn back the tide Ain't that a shame I'd like to go back one time on a roller coaster ride When life was just a game No use in sitting and thinkin' on what you did When you can lay back and enjoy it through your kids Sometimes it seems like lately I just don't know Better sit back and go with the flow Cos these are the days of our lives They've flown in the swiftness of time These days are all gone now but some things remain When I look and I find no change ~Queen
Nostalgia is one of the worst things you can turn to. One of my closest relatives has been longing for the past for the last 40 years, longing for a time that will never come back, and hating the present for 40 years. This is awful and it pushes him away from everyone.
It may not be like that for everyone. In my experience, there’s something about reminiscing the good times that makes me feel more grounded in the present, because I tend to love seeing how far I’ve come
Great vid. Like the point about perpetual nostalgia. Every current phase of life missing the past phase. I fell victim to that. Fear of the unknown future or frustration about the future being impacted by unknown variables were my primary issues.
I get nostalgia about events and people sometimes, but it's really mostly memories of beautiful places I've been, for me it's not that hard to understand when I'm glorifying the past. But with nature, I look at a picture from years ago and feel a deep longing to be back there, and I know I could go back but it will rarely be the exact same and there's something just so melancholy about not being able to relive that very moment in time ever again, like because it's over I want to go back in time and fully appreciate the beauty. I suppose in the future I'll feel like this about the present moment I'm in now though
For me my old happiness is now depression all I want. Now is to be trapped in a constant loop between 1 to 13 Once i tern 13 I forget my memory and go back
Nostalgia is strange… many a times the period you are nostalgic about was in actuality, during that time, a very rough duration of your life, yet for some reason you cling to the innocence you had back then, which due to your updated/added knowledge of the world, isn’t there anymore.
Ecclesiastes 7:10 Say not thou, "what is it , That the former days were better these?" For thou hast not asked wisely of this. Edit, When i dwell in the past, it's not reality, it's a half real/half imagined of the past, like the author was saying, but while this goes on in my head, something is telling me, very strongly don't do this to yourself, and that is great advise!
A formidable reason for nostalgia includes all 5 senses. A big factor, for me at least, has to do with the music of the day that I am remembering.I was born in June 3, 1975 and even if these bands were a few years behind me, I have always been a big fan of music that was playing during my infancy: Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Rush and countless others. The song I am referencing here is "Something For Nothing" off of Rush's album 2112. ("What you own is your own kingdom What you do is your own glory What you love is your own power What you live is your own story In your head is the answer Let it guide you along Let your heart be the anchor And the beat of your song") I am not a fan of the music today: I am more of a classic rock fan. Any memory, whatever sensibility it relates to, is like an anchor for your soul. Nostalgia is like being a ghost with a pulse in the present moment. Not necessarily good or necessarily bad. The obsession can make you mad if you let it. But the past does contain valuable lessons. Just don't dwell on it, for your faulty memory is probably lying to you and washing out the painful parts while you dream. Now if Doc Brown arrived in his DeLorean and asked me would I like to see Zeppelin from (1970-79), the Doors, Rush(Exit Stage Left) I would definitely say fuck yeah!
Sometimes the happy memories are the saddest ones 😢
and vice versa
I can relate!😔😔
very true
Very very true. I miss my 3 year old self, I was so chubby back then. But now that I’m 13 it has change a lot, I was a lot happier when I was 3 years old
ッMeowCatYT I miss my grandma and the years
2013-2016
those were the best years ever 4 me
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I want to fucking die
I am haunted by my nostalgia. It’s a sweet pain that I don’t want to let go. It’s a very beautiful thing.
Same. It's the early 2000s for me 😢🥺
@Michael Valensi or how about you stfu and let them grieve the past at their own pace and move on when they’re good to do so.
@@Anonymous-gq4gq I don’t see their comment so I’m assuming that was some idiot saying they don’t care
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I feel u man i feel this especially at night
Sometimes I'm nostalgic for my childhood. The perspective of a child is pure. They live in a form of blissful ignorance. That's what people miss the most, I think.
Nostalgia comes from a dissatisfaction with the present moment. Love that line!
Agree
The Life Formula because it’s true
This aged like fine wine in 2020
Very true
That doesn’t seem right (to me) because I constantly feel nostalgia, so am I just always dissatisfied?
Remember, years later this exact moment will be nostalgic, so enjoy.
I don't think I will make it that far.
@@memenchance1747I hope you do my friend
So true.
My Nostalgic moment is on my childhood mainly on the decade of 2000's and early 2010's.
@TechMasterJason Well for me it was the entire decade of the 2000's was NOSTALGIC for me.
My flashbacks is unespected and i dont know exacly from what era they are but thwy often happen when i visit some place and remember me playing there as a child, i even get deppresed because of nostalgia
I'm at my most nostalgic for the period 1987-1999 which spans my childhood aged 3-15.
Same here. When i could actually enjoy and be free, truly!
I'm 33 and we here
*_“I'm nostalgic for a better tomorrow.”
― Brian Spellman_*
What I would say in the context of the state of the world today is: I'm nostalgic for the existence of the possibility of a better tomorrow.
Well as they say since after 2012 everything has gone downhill so probably not
@@heathenbreathinfire You should read cultural theorist Mark Fisher's book 'Ghosts of my life'.
Who?
@@PepASad 2012?... They been saying since the 1950's
I don't know why, but nostalgia sometimes makes me regret somethings I have done in the past, I guess it's taking a trip down into the memory lane of how much I could've made everything better.
Me too
I almost never comment using this profile, but I am gladly making an exception for this video.
I am 24 years old, and the theme resonates strongly with me at this point in my life. In fact, I am dealing with this issue right now, and so was almost superstitiously shocked to see this appear in my subscriptions when I logged on. I've been through very intense and different chapters in my life, and though they were more painful than pleasurable, the current stage of my life is a very grey, neutral, somber one. Like the depressingly cold ashes left behind from a furnace. And when you go through a lot and enter this peaceful but empty, lonely stage... nostalgia becomes an addictive drug. You just want to feel alive and connected with others again, even if the people you long for were toxic.
What you said hits the nail right on the head: "We tend to romanticize the things from before." I have quite a few songs on my phone that I sometimes listen to, just to bask in the memories. You rationalizing it - explaining how we are nostalgic for previous phases regardless of how terrible they were when we actually experienced them - really helped. Thanks a lot, Einzelganger. Your content is precious and helps more people than you may think.
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I have almost the same problems
I totally get you
Dude I'm in that same phase too but I'm only 14
I got u my friend, god bless to you and your family brother
I think part of the appeal of nostalgia is that it is safe. The past is gone, it is not a period of action but reflection; it is like a book or a movie that you have seen before and know how it ends and can be returned to for comfort and even the conflicts are now part of the plot and the pain distant over time. It is a safe oasis and a way to commune with people and places that no longer exist...and that includes yourself. Nostalgia takes you back to a younger time when you were a different person and life was fresher. However after analyzing my memories I realize many of the same problems I had in the past still linger and have never been addressed and overcome, thus making the present more difficult and the future dark and uncertain. This makes nostalgia all the more seductive. It’s a double edged sword.
Nicely said; I think you captured it.
Nostalgia for me brings so many flashbacks of me and my friends playing, or moments with my family, and most of them are happy and when i remember them i am happy but again.. Sometimes it makes deppresion deep inside of me bevause i fear of future and i really want to live in the past, but i cant... I am trying to live that good old moments again from time to time, but as older we are, we realoze that those memories will never be the same again, you camt bring them in present sadly... No matter how hard u are trying, and because of nostalgia, sometimes i cant live my life as bsfore... Its really weird
i broke on the "past is gone" part
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I want to get rid of nostalgia.
I think more and more about past, about "good old times". At the first glance there is nothing bad, but I am so nostalgic that I basically live in the past, not caring about present and my own future. I am 26 but I feel like I there is nothing good left which is not true at all, but my constant nostalgic way of thinking (if I can put it so) makes me feel that way. This is the reason why I have not achieved anything substantial in my life for the past 3-4 years. And recently I broke up with my girlfriend. The city we met and lived for about 7 years became one big nostalgic (and tragic) place.
I defienetely need to change the way of thinking, strive for future and achive something. But It is impossible if you always look back at good ol' times. So here am I, searching for how I can change my thinking patterns.
Best of luck to you, make plans for future, live in present. You can make life quite enjoyable right now and right here, but do not trade your present and future for the long gone past.
Upd: the overload of nostalgia basically devaluate your current life.
I'm exactly the same, feeling nostalgic specially regarding my adolescence, young adulthood and my hometown. I hope one year after your leaving that comment you have found more meaning to the present moment and what you were looking for :). Hopefully so will I.
It’s hard to trade that good ol but long gone past time.
good luck man and to everyone reading this i wish you the best
I'm 24 and exactly the same. Especially with this pandemic. I don't want to grow older. I know what it comes with. So I feel demotivated and stuck in this void I'm in where I feel nostalgic all the time and try to keep doing things like play playstation and act immature. I don't want to grow up. And I know this too. This is why I have depression.
I don’t know what it is about your voice but it’s so calming. I lover the accent and the tone. Your videos are great too.
Thanks Dylan... hope it's not sleep-inducing ;)
My whole life is consumed with a near constant aching for the past moments of my life. The past seems like my real life, and the present feels surreal
I know man it’s sad
I feel exactly the same way you do!
me too buddy :( i wish i could’ve been better. i have to be better now so i don’t make the same midtakes
If i look back to the early 80s when I was 20 it's as if I'm looking back at someone else was that really me who ami know
You look back when you have nothing to look forward to.
True
It’s interesting to read all these comments and realize how many people experience this. This video articulates my feelings quite clearly. At 70 years old, nostalgia has become more emotionally charged for me.
I never felt nostalgic, always pretty much living in the present and trying to make the most of my life. Then my mother died and I crashed. Mourning, grief and mild depression lingering for two years. She left an emptiness in my life that nobody can fill. That’s the meaning of nostalgia for me, now. Knowing that some people cannot be replaced, that the past probably was not the way I remember it, that I imagine things were better then.... but still... the present and the future interest me less. I have no plans, apart from trying to be useful to those who need me.
Facts bruh.
Since my Dad died, it feels like everyone is already dead and they don’t want to accept it. Leading them to be stuck in limbo.
It feels like I’m an observer of my own life, and I’m moving through time on some weird shit.
Sometimes it’ll feel like the outside overstimulates my brain, to the point where I get light headed just from feeling the heat from the sun/feeling the wind👌
Interracial Suspect I know what you mean... I think... although I would not want to be so arrogant as to pretend we are going through the same kind of black tunnel, but sometimes the emptiness is almost overbearing... and what’s worst, nobody really wants to talk about grief and bereavement... just forget about it
I understand how you feel!!
@@interracialsuspect5300 i suffer because of nostalgia, its so hard to live that old good moment again and i dont know how to search help for that, i am always trying to live in present but i cant, it always bringa me back in past, and those memory flashbacks makes me sad and happy at the same time
@@peripheralmaster3265 I think you’re separating the nostalgia from the present moment. What if its something that can bring joy to the present?
Recently my grandmother died. I've been hurting since I know that the good times we had together are relegated to memory, and I can't make any new ones with her anymore. Sometimes I wish I could be a child again. They were very innocent times.
*Frodo* : _I wish it need not have happened in my time_
*Gandalf* : _So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us_
fly you fools . . .
Nostalgia is perhaps nostalgia for being younger... it is perhaps an escape away from future death. It almost gives the illusion of eternity.. plenty of past times to think of and remember. Indeed, "a human rebellion against impermanence". Thank u for this
I honestly think that *Nostalgia* is the most dangerous and most powerful feeling humans have since it can create rifts between people or create bridges between them.
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I honestly do not think so (in better words I have to disagree) as I look to nostalgia solely for the historical aspect (i.e. music, films, video games, cars, lifestyles, etc) that is severely lacking in our generation. So yes I understand that nostalgia can be a powerful "human" feeling however to say that it create rifts between people or create bridges between them is a bit redundant as it's really a lot of modern societal and social norms that causes these rifts instead of looking back at the past. Likewise, blame social media and blame our generation's obvious lack of identify for the failing that we are seeing today.
So nostalgia actually is interest - inter esse (lat ), that what is between people. Language also
Nostalgia made problems to me as well as happines, i sometimes have mental breakdoen from flashbacks from the bast and sometimes, when i remember them, indeed its still hard to forget that moments, so im always trying to live thema gain and that makes me happy
Thats pretty deep man
@@peripheralmaster3265 true man i feel that at times
I’m sometimes nostalgic for the worst times in my life, I was deeply depressed, but I was so young and innocent, emotions were so much stronger and intense, music sounded so much better and hit so much deeper.
My life hasn’t gotten much better at all, I’ve just gotten more numb and jaded as time as went on.
I Just hope and am now committed to a better future.
U said it so well
I was born in 96 and I feel the present day is just awful…every form of entertainment has worsened since about 2015 and I have no idea what to do about it
I mourn the past often, when I was young, before people I loved had passed away, being carefree, having many friends, relationships. It hurts to look back, but I would not give up these memories for anything.
I can't avoid nostalgia sometimes. Like today I watched a movie called "Surfs Up" from 2007. Thought it would be ok, since I didn't have many memories of the movie. I was wrong. By the end of it, a while wave of nostalgia hit me in the face, it hurt so much. It brought back other memories that relate to the ocean, throwing me to the early 2010's. I miss it.
Nostalgia shows the beauty of life in the past. However, we can never know how much accurate our memories are, because the amount of good feelings towards the past can change how we remember things. So, nostalgia is pretty much an ideal of life that we can only admire.
Yes sir ❗
Sometimes I'm nostalgic about times when I was nostalgic. I just never realized it.
Really, I just hate getting older. There is literally nothing good about aging. Your health diminishes further and further the older you get, and things just become generally less exciting in life. I notice how much I've lost that sense of excitement and wonder I had as a kid, and I would kill to get it back.
Maybe try to learn something new? That's how I keep myself excited learning about something or how to do something
I feel the exact same way...
Make friends and learn something new
I have the same problem, but i am just 15 years old, i daily have flashbacks of me as a kid and i am trying to live that moments again but in vain... You cant live in the past, you need to get over it and live in the present, i even start to animate, and that made me kinda happier because i have something new ro learn and do, but those things i have done as a kid.. Eill always stay attached to my mind and never go away...
Drop acid. That’ll get that childlike wonder back.
You know what I think nostalgia is a dissatisfaction for the present and a praise of the past I'm having a problem and I dont feel like me so I'm stuck thinking about the times I was really me and that's how I feel just had to get that out there.
I don’t think it’s really a problem as what some people are thinking. I think it’s normal, and it lets us see how far we’ve come. Something about it makes me feel like it brings us joy especially into the present
@@TacticalNuke321 i Agree with u mate.
I'm always haunted by my mistakes in the past, if only I used my brain right at those moments and did the right things my life would be so much different and better
I really miss the past.
@Κωνσταντίνος ΉπΜκ same! 2010s were my glory days. Now...
Thank you, really need one. I just had a meltdown after looking back on old pictures. I was so anxious to go back, and it felt like it was the peak of my life. But i know it’s not true bcs we keep on moving from time to time. You reassured me more.
I believe that nostalgia is the pain we feel for the past that was not as pleasant as we would have wanted it to be. I believe nostalgia is longing for a past situation about which we had certain expectations and dreams. and when that situation in the past has ended, all those dreams and expectations died with it. something changed and we now know that whaterver we wished to came to pass can never be, because those conditions that were once, in the past, are no longer there. it's a kind of a wishful thingking imho. and nostalgia is the recognition of the death of that wishful thinking.
eg: you had a friend and you had experiences. but as annoying, short minded or limited that friend was as a human being, he was there for you in some form or another. and deep down, you wished for him/her to be different. it was enticing that he or she could have changed and you would have been closer, but now, that the friendship has ended, or is still alive, but deep in your heart you know that it has very few days left to live, now you realize that all those things you thought about your friend will forever be just illusions. never fated to be real. now, there's no reason to lie to yourself. but you mourn those illusions, because for you, for a short while, they were real. or at least had the potential to become real.
I don't suffer from nostalgia. These are "The Good Old Days".
I just want to be a kid again and worry about nothing.
I miss my childhoods family farm. The animals, the mysteries of the deep forest, playing with my brother and fishing with dad. I try to live a similar life now but it's not the same. No magic. Even if I could buy back the family farm, that place has changed a lot and is not the same. The chicken barn and the biggest spruce tree is gone. Even the trolls in the woods seem to have moved. My family has changed. The childhood is gone :-(
I'm always reflecting back on mu childhood days of running around the neighborhood with my friends. How swift it seems that we all split up now and who knew that it would end just like thay.
Weird thing is, it as not always the most cherished memories that are looked back on with a tinge of sadness. Even the mundane times can be missed. Jobs from your past that you neither loved nor hated, places you lived that weren't necessarily your favorite places. Much of it I think has to do with just missing the time you had ahead of you. You were younger and most things were still yet to come. And even if you don't necessarily have huge regrets to your life path, there is something irreplaceable about the times of anticipation. The times of dreaming of the future and its possibilities. Which makes parenthood that much more magical when the kids are very young. But this time you try and cherish the moments of their youth and they go by so fast. It's not always a feeling of foreboding aging and having fewer and fewer days ahead. Often it is just missing having the fresh young mind and a clean canvas on which to create new memories.
True.
I hope i could just forget everything and get busy with life with a tough heart.
I am deeply affected by nostalgia pain. I went to this one summer camp from the time I was 5 to when I was 13. I’m now 15. And I remember the last time I went there was in 2019 and at the end of that summer one of my favorite councilors and I took a picture together on the last day and we told each other ‘’see you next summer’’… that was 2 and a half years ago and I still haven’t seen him or been to summer camp. Thanks COVID😤
I clung onto the past with such relentless, unwavering conviction that it nearly destroyed me. There was no doubt that things used to be easier and better, but I'll await heaven to revisit those beautiful feelings, the truth is we can never fully reclaim those times in this life. Even if we recreate the exact settings our minds are always changing and we cannot unlearn what we've already been subjected to. We all must move on and allow ourselves to immerse into the moment, no matter how painful, I almost couldn't let go, I was convinced that I was automatically stuck in the past 24/7 but through reaching out and slowly letting myself stop thinking about the past and taking the effort to part away from nostalgia and nostalgic events, I allowed myself to find new comfort and even happiness in the present, and stop comparing it to the past, which I had been doing for seven years.
I think that nostalgia is a lack of excitement and socializing enough in my case
I feel nostalgia for the good and simple times but I am not dissatisfied with my life now or anything. It's just nice to reflect. I'm glad I have those memories but I'm excited for the future too.
Nostalgia can be harmful as well as beneficial. It makes you realize that if it was possible to make good times in the past, it is worth trying to make good times now. I am very nostalgic about the place where I grew up and the time I spent with my good old friends. There is, however, a lot to regret. I hate who I was back then and would not want go back in time. But my good memories have a power to motivate and endow me with a sense of meaning. Do not repress nostalgia, but reflect upon it seriously and, as far as it's beneficial, extract what you can from it. You have to be able to negotiate with yourself, rather than reject gifts such as this.
I'll never forget the friends I grew far apart from but at least I'll have these memories forever
This moment right now could be future nostalgia
True 🥺
I always feel sad when I remember my high school days, I graduated in 2020. Really miss that life.
Feels like I am dying inside in this lockdown
My nostalgia is fairly recent, around 2010 I lost the ability to be myself in front of other people besides family.
I like a lot of things I used to do as a child, like origami, craft stuff, decorating for the holidays and watching old cartoons. I work as IT and it's mentally exhausting, sometimes I need to play a bit or find refuge in things to cope with stress.
Sadly I have to lie about my personal life around my colleagues, pretend I only do and like adult stuff, or I just don't say anything at all. They don't know the real me. I think they'd mock me for still liking kid stuff.
I alsoo lost the ability to be myself outside my family
nostalgia is literally the worst thing in the world for me, it psychically hurts to think about the times i was happier.
My Nostalgic time frame range from 2003-2016😥
We hold onto the past as the future draws near. We hold onto memories as they unfold. We cling onto memories we hold so dear. A time before we understood the world, before all became so cold. When all was a mystery with such hope. But now that weve learned the truth, we sit and wonder, present moment in life we lose. Lost in the battles within ourself, the memories come to pass, a time and a person we let go.
- Jsheetz Artwork
I try to relive my nostalgia despite my age
...makes me feel better
Nostalgia isn't always negative. I often think back on negative and positive moments as a learning lesson or with optimism. Suggesting it is with mourning or a dissatisfaction with the present is slightly hyperbole.
Guess it all depends on perception.
See my thing with nostalgia is that corporations now a days are trying to profit from it. They take What we love as a child and turn it into a cheap imitation for our money. In turn it ruins our experience. Keep what is in the past in the past.
Let the past die. Kill it if you must, Grand Admiral
Thank you for helping me understand that memories may not bee how reality was presented back then, and to focus more now on today. It´s inspiring how in these days one can just simply look up something that is not understood in oneself and there is amazing people like you doing videos about it, thanks a lot.
This video is really what I needed. I've been getting more aware of myself with your videos. Thank you for everything. UA-cam algorithm actually did something nice for once.
It’s so hard to get over the fact that u can never go back to some things even if I love it dearly, I logically feel the illusion but something in me knows things used to be so much better in a lot of different aspects
Lov ur channel m8, pls never stop
Thanks! I'll try not to ;)
@@Einzelgängerplease please its a request, never stop! you are valuable.
Basically my review of the year 2021 and it sucks.
I love your videos!
Some of the times i miss the most when I was a young child was the time Fall came about, all the way to new years day; It was just a mysterious magical time....and now its nothing.
Don't cry because it's gone. Smile because it happened.
I wish i could just be 10 years old again in the 90s and start from fresh.
Today I am battling nostalgia which is why I’m looking up these types of videos. I love it and hate it. It feels good to reflect but I become so sad at the same time.
*You should only live in the present because that’s where you can change your future* 🙏
Totally
But, you should learn from the past.
But when you ONLY live in the present, why should you care about the future? The future is something that might be this way or another, millions of possibilities and therefore only a fantasy that distracts you from living in the present.
A. K. But what do you experience right now? Do you experience the future?
Man this hit me hard thanks
It’s so ironic that my happiest memories are also my saddest, it was so simple and fun, spending most my time playing with old friends on Xbox, now most of the games I played are dead and I haven’t talked to my old Xbox friends in ages, it was so much fun and now I can’t help but feel sad, even just a few years ago in highschool with my best friends is nostalgic, we’d talk basically everyday… It was all so much fun… I wish I could go back…
Nostalgia has a scientific reason behind it, it's routed in the way our brains convert information to long-term memories. On recall, a nostalgic feeling is invoked. Can't get rid of it without re-programming our systems (not going to happen). We can only learn to ignore it with willpower, if so inclined.
I am trapped in my own Nostalgia for years now, thinking about my happy past because I always feel that my present life is so miserable. Thus, I've been diagnosed with Anxiety and Depression.
Even if it's bad to cling to past memories with people you can't find even if you tried. I wouldn't forget it or even consider forgetting it even for a moment. Because as much as it hurts to remember them, I can't stand the thought of those memories not existing. The days you'd get with all your friends who lived near and shoot airsoft until the sun went down. The days I'd listen to creepypasta with my siblings. The days when my grandfather and brother would go out on the beach before everyone else woke up. The days when you'd get to the back of the bus to chill with all your friends even as the seniors you know each year are gone the next. Those days with my old friends working shitty retails jobs down until the day the last of us stopped playing around and finally put in that two week notice. Those days were the happiest days of my life.
This particular video was one of the most poignant for me. For years, I was nostalgic for my high school years. College and the military were turbulent years. Sometimes, we need the past to inform the present. Might it be that not just indicating that we are living in the past, but really how, "crappy," our present existence is. Considering that I was a Captain in the USAF during Vietnam, high school was a nostalgic time. Yes, we must live in the present, but the present can contentious and problematic. The only present I would choose to live in is what the Buddhist call, "Satori."
Moment can never be treasured until it became memories true means of nostalgia
That last line, it broke my heart. 'Nostalgia is not Only clinging to the past, but a human rebellion Against impermanence of life' 😢
I love the picture at 2:26
Same here.
I am extremely nostalgic about a few times in my life. Instead of making me happy when I visit them, it makes me really sad.
I remember when I was deployed overseas. I couldn't wait to go home.
I just mostly missed my family. One day another soldier and I were talking about when we get home and he said you're gonna miss this place I was like HAAA!!! 🤣 You're a comedian. Trust me I won't. But our military base was surprisingly not horrible and actually kinda fun. When I was off I used to catch those funny foreign looking base buses. The drivers would always be playing upbeat middle eastern music. It was scorching hot outside and the air on the bus was such a relief. I would go to the PX on the West side, to the Bazaar, the USO eat snacks and call home or play on the computer or go to the Dfac, It was a very nice relaxing atmosphere in there though always packed with people. They would have all kinds of food, Seafood, Chicken wings, Sandwiches, Salad bar, fried eggs, desserts anything you could want and I would pile my plate up to the top lol then go back to my can and take a nap watching one of the two channels on tv 😆 cool times. Fast forward 12 yrs and now I often reminisce about that place in time. So I guess my fellow soldier was right. What I've learned is that no matter how bad times seem we should always try to find the beauty in it because one day we'll likely look back and miss the beauty that we could not even see.
"The giving tree" by Shel Silverstein fucks me up completely, I think now because it is nostalgic at its core. In the beginning life between a perfect being the tree and an unblemished boy is in a state of perfection. Then the boy starts to grow up and the tree suffers and at the end they are both ruined utterly.Fuck nostalgia.
“The spouses death was a blessing for the marriage“ - this is a great conclusion thus major mood
Thank you for this video, helps me understand that my memories are not concrete, I love the words of nikaya
"Remember When" is the lowest form of communication
Nostalgia is where I truly live my life the present is so different that makes me believe that this is not my truly life
I look back at first lock down in the UK, I worked in a key job so I got to see all the empty streets etc. it was amazing.
I haven’t actually been nostalgic for any time in the last like 15 years. Fundamentally my life changed after 9/11 and things never really got better.
“Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go fourth to meet the shadowy future, without fear, and with a manly heart.”
-Longfellow
It feels better when you realize how you feel doesn’t matter anyways🤞
Johny2bikes
It ain’t the nicest, but it’s probably the best us humans can grasp for now👌
My past wasn't really that pleasant to tell you truth. I only highlight happy memorable moments, especially back in my highschool teen years. Scratch the memorable moments in my household.
Hope alls well. While your on break I enjoy taking this time to catch up on videos I may have missed. Always great content.
A human rebellion against impermanence. That's beautiful. You don't see many animals dwelling on the past.
I also miss my old days, but I'm 15 years old. I miss my 9 year old self and I miss 2016 when we shifted to our new home. I don't know why but they look like best days to me. I someotimes wish I could go back to those good old days. I also made some friends in Fourth class compared to previous year. I miss those days.
You can't turn back the clock you can't turn back the tide
Ain't that a shame
I'd like to go back one time on a roller coaster ride
When life was just a game
No use in sitting and thinkin' on what you did
When you can lay back and enjoy it through your kids
Sometimes it seems like lately
I just don't know
Better sit back and go with the flow
Cos these are the days of our lives
They've flown in the swiftness of time
These days are all gone now but some things remain
When I look and I find no change
~Queen
2:50 this part hits me hard bcos it's accurate
Perfect timing bro! Appreciate all the videos and the work
Nostalgia is one of the worst things you can turn to. One of my closest relatives has been longing for the past for the last 40 years, longing for a time that will never come back, and hating the present for 40 years. This is awful and it pushes him away from everyone.
It may not be like that for everyone. In my experience, there’s something about reminiscing the good times that makes me feel more grounded in the present, because I tend to love seeing how far I’ve come
"We spend our entire childhood wanting to grow up, and the rest of our adulthood wanting to go back"
I wish I would’ve spent more time with my son when he was younger ❤🎉
Great vid. Like the point about perpetual nostalgia. Every current phase of life missing the past phase. I fell victim to that. Fear of the unknown future or frustration about the future being impacted by unknown variables were my primary issues.
MILLENNIALS are saddles people on earth 😭
that 80s 90s songs and 2000s games are saddest
I get nostalgia about events and people sometimes, but it's really mostly memories of beautiful places I've been, for me it's not that hard to understand when I'm glorifying the past. But with nature, I look at a picture from years ago and feel a deep longing to be back there, and I know I could go back but it will rarely be the exact same and there's something just so melancholy about not being able to relive that very moment in time ever again, like because it's over I want to go back in time and fully appreciate the beauty. I suppose in the future I'll feel like this about the present moment I'm in now though
For me my old happiness is now depression all I want. Now is to be trapped in a constant loop between 1 to 13 Once i tern 13 I forget my memory and go back
Nostalgia is strange… many a times the period you are nostalgic about was in actuality, during that time, a very rough duration of your life, yet for some reason you cling to the innocence you had back then, which due to your updated/added knowledge of the world, isn’t there anymore.
I personally embrace nostalgia ✨✌
Ecclesiastes 7:10 Say not thou, "what is it , That the former days were better these?" For thou hast not asked wisely of this.
Edit, When i dwell in the past, it's not reality, it's a half real/half imagined of the past, like the author was saying, but while this goes on in my head, something is telling me, very strongly don't do this to yourself, and that is great advise!
Nostalgic for good days makes the bad days even worse
A formidable reason for nostalgia includes all 5 senses. A big factor, for me at least, has to do with the music of the day that I am remembering.I was born in June 3, 1975 and even if these bands were a few years behind me, I have always been a big fan of music that was playing during my infancy: Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Rush and countless others. The song I am referencing here is "Something For Nothing" off of Rush's album 2112. ("What you own is your own kingdom
What you do is your own glory
What you love is your own power
What you live is your own story
In your head is the answer
Let it guide you along
Let your heart be the anchor
And the beat of your song")
I am not a fan of the music today: I am more of a classic rock fan. Any memory, whatever sensibility it relates to, is like an anchor for your soul. Nostalgia is like being a ghost with a pulse in the present moment. Not necessarily good or necessarily bad. The obsession can make you mad if you let it. But the past does contain valuable lessons. Just don't dwell on it, for your faulty memory is probably lying to you and washing out the painful parts while you dream.
Now if Doc Brown arrived in his DeLorean and asked me would I like to see Zeppelin from (1970-79), the Doors, Rush(Exit Stage Left) I would definitely say fuck yeah!