Is nostalgia something to be avoided?
Many think it is.
The believe you should live for the day.
Or at least look to the future.
But nostalgia can be like a comfort blanket.
Or a cup of hot chocolate, on a cold day.
It can be reassuring.
Is that so bad?
Really?
I’m a nostalgia freak! Love it🥰
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Thanks, Shammi. Me too!
Best wishes, Pete.
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We need nostalgia because that’s what got us to we’re we are today, and helps us to fully live each day.
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Glad to hear you agree.
Thanks, Jennie.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I wholeheartedly agree. Best to you, Pete.
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On occasion a winsome feeling comes along, based on some nostalgic experience, I let them linger for awhile before sending them on their way. C
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I let them linger longer. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Many hours of my day are in retrospection (history). The other half I imagine my/the future. It’s embracing the present that’s hard for me.
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That’s interesting. I rarely think about the future now. I get through most of the present by thinking about the past. My future feels less than tangible, more like a concept.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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I find comfort in past memories, and so much humour 🙂
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When I had that long phone call with my old friend recently, it was mostly about what we did and who we knew from the ages of 11-21. It was a joy to recall those times.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Love it! Spot on, Pete.
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Thanks, Pam. We will drink that hot chocolate together. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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To me? Nostalgia is doing the ‘my life flashed before my eyes!” trip before you are actually re-thinking your entire life during the 2.5 seconds after you drove off the cliff face of 5,000 ft screaming time…. Much nicer to do it in snatches here and there while you aren’t also gripped in the ‘will it hurt when I hit?” panic….. thus, I’m a big fan of nostalgia – – 😀
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Glad to hear you are also a nostalgia fan, TamrahJo.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Nostalgia is only one part of memory, the safest part. Warmest regards, Theo
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Yes, I feel safer wearing rose-tinted glasses, obviously. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Some of my favorite times are thinking back over times in my life. I treasure the chance to revisit people and places just by sitting still in my chair.
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That makes two of us, Elizabeth.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Good question but with a good answer Pete.
Nostalgia is where you hope that good memory can be repeated now or in the future.
Hugs
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Thanks very much, David.
I hope you are well my friend.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Like the rest of us Pete, I get by. I’m doing well this year, almost March and I’ve not been in hospital yet. And what a treat this weekend’s weather is here, almost as if Spring has sprung. Sunshine and 14 degree temperatures.I hope you’ve got the same,
Hugs
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We have indeed, David. I have been wearing shorts for the last two days! 🙂
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Et puis, un jour, sa mère lui proposa une tasse de thé et des madeleines, qu’il refusa dans un premier temps puis finit par accepter. C’est alors que, des années après son enfance, le thé et les miettes du gâteau firent remonter toute la partie de sa vie passée à Combray : « … et tout Combray et ses environs, tout cela qui prend forme et solidité, est sorti, ville et jardins, de ma tasse de thé. »
(Source: article sur À la recherche du temps perdu dans Wikipédia)
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A simple cake and a cup of tea can indeed make memories come flooding back, David.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I think some nostalgia is necessary.
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Pleased to hear that. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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it is always good to recall the past especially in these golden years. 🙂
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Glad you agree, Wilma.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Interesting thought. No harm in feeling reassured or reflecting on what we’ve learned or have to be grateful for. But then I’m writing an 80s memoir so I’m biased!
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You use nostalgia very well in your writing, Rich. It has been a great source of inspiration for your work.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I always equate nostalgia with being stuck in the past, resistant to change and a waste of time, (I think you know me by now!) 🤣
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Yes, I am well aware of your thoughts on the matter, FR. Whatever works best for you is fine by me. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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😊 😘
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The older we get, the more we look back I think.
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Certainly true for me, Stevie.
Best wishes, Pete.
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According to that font of all knowledge, QI, nostalgia was once regarded as an illness, for the demonstration of which members of the military could be punished! Nineteenth century I think, but I wouldn’t swear to that. Cheers, Jon.
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Well I wouldn’t have lasted long in the armed forces back then, Jon.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Nostalgia is what keeps me going in my writings….so for me it is a good thing. chuq
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For me too, chuq.
Best wishes, Pete.
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