yo I'm so mad I didn't see this till now. I'm absolutely sat. I got my water, tea, leftover kombucha—my 3 drink holy trinity—and a wrap I made for lunch, and I am READING this bitch✌🏻
you always got my support girly🫶🏻 but also this was an absolutely lovely read. I just want to say that the section "nostalgia is grief" hit me really hard. I resonate with that so so much. genuinely, thank you for writing this. I feel like I just had so many of my thoughts and feelings so accurately represented. I feel so seen xx
This was wonderful and gave me a rollercoaster of emotions. Thank you for sharing and may you always be brave enough to be nostalgic! To feel is to be brave and to remember is to re-live the moment. If your life went on without nostalgia you wouldn’t understand the concept of cherishing something as it’s happening knowing one day you will feel differently remembering the moment.
I think about nostalgia as a concept, way of life, artistic endeavor, life lesson quite often. Midnight in Paris is one of my most favorite movies because of its themes of nostalgia as a societal problem to solve. Gil is ridiculed for wanting to open a nostalgia shop, and the movie claims each generation has its own gilded ideas of the previous ones. This fits with nostalgia as disease, it also a source of joy.
I have these fleeting memories that live on in my body, very visceral and remind me of a time I felt something for the first time. I don’t know how to categorize it but that ineffable quality of a memory to immediately bring back a past life is remarkable. Maybe that is why we hold on.
“each of you will want to hear a different answer to that question” I loved that part.
Ooo Midnight in Paris sounds like an interesting movie, I’ll have to add it to my list! It is true, each generation has different ideas about what the past was really like. I think that also goes for which era a generation feels nostalgic for the most. Like millennials and gen z really love 90s/2000s, boomers love the 60s/70s, etc. Adolescence has so much to do with it too, I think that’s when our most visceral memories are made and why we hold onto nostalgic markers of childhood so much. Thanks for reading!
yo I'm so mad I didn't see this till now. I'm absolutely sat. I got my water, tea, leftover kombucha—my 3 drink holy trinity—and a wrap I made for lunch, and I am READING this bitch✌🏻
LMFAO SUMMER I’M DYING
you always got my support girly🫶🏻 but also this was an absolutely lovely read. I just want to say that the section "nostalgia is grief" hit me really hard. I resonate with that so so much. genuinely, thank you for writing this. I feel like I just had so many of my thoughts and feelings so accurately represented. I feel so seen xx
🥹 I’m gonna cry lol that’s literally all I want
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This was wonderful and gave me a rollercoaster of emotions. Thank you for sharing and may you always be brave enough to be nostalgic! To feel is to be brave and to remember is to re-live the moment. If your life went on without nostalgia you wouldn’t understand the concept of cherishing something as it’s happening knowing one day you will feel differently remembering the moment.
Thank you so much for reading McKayla, what a beautiful description of nostalgia!
I can’t wait to read more of your works! I’d love to connect!🫶🏼
I think about nostalgia as a concept, way of life, artistic endeavor, life lesson quite often. Midnight in Paris is one of my most favorite movies because of its themes of nostalgia as a societal problem to solve. Gil is ridiculed for wanting to open a nostalgia shop, and the movie claims each generation has its own gilded ideas of the previous ones. This fits with nostalgia as disease, it also a source of joy.
I have these fleeting memories that live on in my body, very visceral and remind me of a time I felt something for the first time. I don’t know how to categorize it but that ineffable quality of a memory to immediately bring back a past life is remarkable. Maybe that is why we hold on.
“each of you will want to hear a different answer to that question” I loved that part.
Ooo Midnight in Paris sounds like an interesting movie, I’ll have to add it to my list! It is true, each generation has different ideas about what the past was really like. I think that also goes for which era a generation feels nostalgic for the most. Like millennials and gen z really love 90s/2000s, boomers love the 60s/70s, etc. Adolescence has so much to do with it too, I think that’s when our most visceral memories are made and why we hold onto nostalgic markers of childhood so much. Thanks for reading!