Nostalgia

[Factotum]

do you ever feel terribly nostalgic for the old days? the good old childhood days? when things were more innocent? when living wasnt a shame? and every hour, every minute, every second isnt paranoia and deceit and unhappiness?

 

[blackdot]

one word: YES!

 

[Factotum]

yes blackdot, it is terrible. and it is terrible because you know its gone forever.

 

[Sci-Fi]

one word: YES!

Ditto. Though some of us refuse to grow up

 

[WhiteTiger Lily]

So very true. Every now and then I pull out my old VHS tapes and watch shows from my youth. I think I'm too young to feel this old

 

[blackdot]

I never said I had grown up. I haven't really had a chance to grow up since I'm never around people.

 

[Okiedokes]

All the time.

 

[swanlake]

Quite often.

 

[Antihero]

I'm nostalgic for times that when I was living it I thought I disliked. If only I knew how well I had it or what potential was out there if only I would just open my eyes.

Perhaps the same thing could be said about the present. /shrugs

 

[LoneKiller]

Like you wouldn't believe! I get very sad because I would love to go back to the parts in my life where everything was great. As dumb as it sounds, I often get a yearning to go back to high school and hang out
and play some ball with the guys. I really, really miss that.

 

[annik]

"Childhood pictures redeem, clean and so serene
See myself without ruining lines
Whole days throwing sticks into streams"

 

[Felix]

I'm quite nostalgic. I love to find old series i used to watch as a kid and see them again. Some I'm not able to find and I get frustrated!

There is also the fact that things were easier. I had no worries. I didn't give a honeysuckle about anything in school, I just went there and be myself and everything was ok... I had friends, a best friend, very good grades and this was all 'automatic' I loved that. Now everything seems hard, I have fewer friends and my future is uncertain...

 

[Factotum]

yes, even i try to relive the past through music and movies from my childhood. it does help suspend reality for a few hours.

 

[Ghost Boy]

Yes I do. Back when you didn't have to worry about things like unemployment and anxieties. I tend to go YouTube and look up old cartoons. I guess that's why I'm kind of a Man Child now.

 

[VanillaCreme]

I'm not usually nostalgic much, but sometimes I do wish that I could go back to a day before I was 13. Looking back, it just seemed so much easier and nicer to be in that time period of my life. Doesn't really help when I watch old 90's shows like All That and Rugrats and such. Good times.

 

[Bread]

Well, I have a lot of old childhood memories that are far from fond...but I think I was less of a headcase back then. Plus, all the big questions with no answers and increasing baggage have left their mental marks.

 

[Sci-Fi]

Last week I bought the DiC animated G.I.Joe series on DVD. It was way campier than the original series by Sunbow but man is it ever fun to watch again.

 

[SilentComfort]

Yes! I enjoy thinking back at various points in the years behind (not only childhood), what i watched, played, what moods i were in.. especially in the lately i go "back in time" alot.

 

[The Pariah]

It's usually triggered by something. I put on a CD in my car today, on it was Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach, Ill Nino and so on. I thought back to when I first heard those songs and realised it was over a decade ago now.

I'd have been a 13/14 year old, and I know we tend to gloss over the less happy memories but a part of me wishes I could go back to then so badly. The potential that was there, what I could have done/been if things had turned out differently. Of course, then I remember that with the environment I was being brought up in, this was the only real outcome if I wanted to maintain any contact with my family. Oh to go back and grow a spine...what could have been but never was.

 

[fox]

Slightly, but for a time very long ago, i hardly remember it, maybe the nostalgia is not deserved, and i mean before age 6 or so.. but any other time except that i have no nostalgia for, because those times seem bad, and now is better.