Malcolm
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Post by Malcolm on Mar 20, 2014 12:43:51 GMT -5
Because I'm starting to feel nostalgic about the early 2000s. Days of watching Smackdown religiously, getting my first Dreamcast, playing my favorite GameCube games, watching my favorite shows, going to my favorite websites...
Then I remember that this was also when my parents were drug addicts who would constantly borrow money and sell my stuff for crack, high school was a living hell that turned me into the bitter pro-indoors loner I am today, I lived in what was possibly the worst neighborhood ever(shootings happened nearly every other day and a some jerkasses from school tore down our Christmas lights one year), my brothers and I were taken away by CPS...
That one poster with the one sig about nostalgia had it spot it. It really is the ability to forget that things sucked.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Mar 20, 2014 12:46:28 GMT -5
If nostalgia is the ability to forget the bad and only remember the good, I'd say it's pretty damn groovy myself.
Your mileage of course may vary, but personally I like happy memories and not bad ones.
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Malcolm
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Post by Malcolm on Mar 20, 2014 12:48:31 GMT -5
If nostalgia is the ability to forget the bad and only remember the good, I'd say it's pretty damn groovy myself. Your mileage of course may vary, but personally I like happy memories and not bad ones. Memories are fine, but I never want to relive those moments physically. |
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Post by Amazing Kitsune on Mar 20, 2014 12:49:18 GMT -5
I disagree, but I understand where you're coming from.
Things were so great for me in the late 90s, early 00s--my prime nostalgia time. I have great memories of things from then, though.
I think nostalgia reminds us that there was happiness in even the darkest of times in our lives. My mother was a horrendous alcoholic and a drug addict, but we still had fun playing video games together. Memories of us playing Contra, Mario Bros 3, Legend of Zelda, Chrysalis and the like help me stay motivated to me as she gets older and is trying to turn her life around.
So yeah, nostalgia rocks. It reminds us of the good in things, I think.
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Post by Malcolm on Mar 20, 2014 12:55:04 GMT -5
Changed the title to better reflect how I feel.
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Post by shaker on Mar 20, 2014 13:12:28 GMT -5
It helps people gloss over the bad stuff, which yeah, can be dangerous some times.
"Woah the 90s were awesome!" completely glosses over some of the completely terrible things going on in the world.
And I'm sure in about 10 years we'll get nostalgia for the early 2000s, despite those being some of hte most terrifying times to be alive in recent history.
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Post by Red Impact on Mar 20, 2014 13:16:30 GMT -5
As long as people don't go the whole "everything today sucks, things were all awesome in my time!" route, I don't see anything wrong with nostalgia.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2014 13:20:37 GMT -5
Anything that distorts the past is BS, if you ask me.
I'm all for fondness for days gone by, but ignoring the bad is like trying to photoshop your childhood photos.
Both the good and the bad make up your past. Trying to gloss over or forget it isn't really remembering the past, its making up one that never existed.
But like I said, I'm all for fond rememberances, but people take it too far. They get so wrapped up in this idealized version of what the past was like they close themselves off from really appreciated whats going on now.
You have to be able to smile at the painful memories in your life. I'm not saying revel in them, but being able to appreciate them as part of what made your present self is equally important (maybe more so) as remembering the good.
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