Nostalgia.
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2024
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I think you're right. I associated nostalgia with stuff from before I was born but nope, I'm just getting old.
Yeah kids don’t experience nostalgia. in fact, kids haven’t experienced most of the interesting things in life.
This is why it’s suck a travesty we have kids read all this great literature in high school. It goes in one ear and out the other, and then they think they’ve “read it”.
Any adult who’s been struggling to stay housed and working should go back and re-read The Grapes of Wrath. Anyone having a midlife crisis should go back and read The Winter of our Discontent.
These books are absolutely wasted in people whose entire lives to date have been cutting shapes out of construction paper to make collages.
So stuff from the mid 2010’s? ;)
Colloquially a “blast from the past”
That phrase is a blast from the past
“A blast from the past”
A Remembrance of Things Past.
Marcel Proust eats a madelleine cookie and remembers his childhood.
For me it often goes one step further. I remember a song or maybe hear it somewhere and think what a great tune! Haven't heard that in forever.
And then what happens is it triggers a flood of other memories from that same time period when it was popular. Then, just as I'm starting to get all wistful, I suddenly recall how I used to hate that song! Like wtf?!?
Sometimes I find myself with a tune stuck in my head, a song I haven’t heard for years.
I’ve learned that if I go look up that song in spotify and listen to it repeatedly with the lyrics, the lyrics contain some wisdom I needed.
Like my subconscious is remembering all the things it hears in the background of keggers and on the radio and all this shit, and then presenting me with these songs when their lyrics become super relevant to my life.
Whenever this happens, I just think about the song that never ends, it goes on and on my friends. Some people started singing it not knowing what it was, and they'll continue singing it forever just because...