PI.FYI | đź”™ NEVER BEATING THE NOSTALGIA ACCUSATIONS
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PI.FYI | đź”™ NEVER BEATING THE NOSTALGIA ACCUSATIONS
Nostalgia need not be conservative, stultifying or sentimental. Rather, expressions of nostalgia are one way we communicate a desire for the past, dissatisfaction about the present, and our visions for the future. My version of nostalgia will be joyful, creative and progressive.
Agnes Arnold-Forster • Nostalgia Was, in Freud’s Day, an Illness Steeped in the Past. Today, It Can Be a Joyful Emotion That Reframes the Future
Nostalgia is a cultural response to change.
Nostalgia is memories minus the pain.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one’s self back in that kind of mood, but I do see it; I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m... See more