Every weekend, social media shares communicative messages about those past time events, items, or shows we grew up with during childhood, teenhood, or any other point of transition where we find ourselves reminiscing about what has past. Reflection on the past times can be beneficial to adjusting to the changing cycle of life's challenges and is healthy for the mind of the individual to grow and dream. However, thinking back to the good times too much can cloud your judgement.
Under some introspective, I start to remember that I didn't even enjoy some of the activities that I did in the past, they were just convenient. There are times when I think about how society has flipped the script on what is considered to be beautiful, cool, awesome, or all the rage how it is conveyed differently. Looking back, I feel that I have grown from seeing how trends have changed and how these new changes in life make up for the better. Whilst, nothing will override my yearning for my peaceful childhood days of playing game demos with my brother and sister or the accessibility of reading or playing anything to my heart's desire without too much judgement.
Nowadays, as an adult, I have to pick my time wisely with how I engage in content to cater to my responsibilities. I further tell myself that these responsibilities will lead me to gaining a better path to life, and I believe so. I'm a lot pickier with what I choose to indulge in than I was back then, but the love is still there. I believe that focusing too much on what isn't there just leads to misery, and underwhelming expectations for the future. Instead, I remind myself that the events that have happened in my present and future have better scenarios in it, than how it was in the past. Whenever I get that nagging sad reflection on the past being better, I think of new ways to engage in methods to further advance those ideas that were swept away with time, and a feeling that has been forgotten.
When I observe the world, and how some of us cling to Nostalgia obsessively, I hope that some of those individuals turn that Nostalgia into productivity. There is a reason as to why the trends have changed with time, but those past times have only variably changed due to influential powers of an individual, corporate design, and for the most part, technology. If the feeling of Nostalgia comes from the feeling of being bitter at how the world has progressed from better times.
It is best to change that feeling into a new progress on the world to what you consider fulfilling. It is human, that we can not help but idealize the past, but always reassure to be keen on reality, because in the end it helped you grow.
