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Chapter 1: What triggers feelings of nostalgia?
Nostalgia is one of those emotions I thought I understood until the other day I was walking down the street and I got a whiff of fresh cut grass. For a split second I was thrown back into 2016 on a Tuesday where I had a travel soccer game. I could feel the polyester of my jersey. I could feel sun beaming down on my face. I could feel... My teammate yelling at me, being like, pass the ball, Zerky!
A split second and it was gone. I blinked, it was gone. But I felt it. It wasn't one of those things where I saw, you know, a Club Penguin or a Wepkins photo on an internet archive page and I was like, oh, you know. It was a memory. I triggered a memory that I didn't even... I knew I had, but I didn't know it weighed on me that much.
Chapter 2: How does nostalgia differ from mere memories?
It's a similar feeling to when I see somebody in real life wear the Fila Stompers. The pinnacle of high school was every girl at my high school had Fila Stompers. These small things, these small memories... they make up nostalgia. And no matter what anyone's going to tell you, you cannot, you cannot describe it. You have to live through it. You have to live through it.
In a day and age where nostalgia is something that is now sold to us, it is something that is now romanticized, the truth is You had to be there. You had to be there. You had to be there. You had to be on the playground when you were trading silly bands with your class enemy because you wanted to get the one that looked like a Minecraft creeper.
Chapter 3: What role does shared experience play in nostalgia?
You had to be there when you begged your parents to get you a Club Penguin subscription so you could have more than one Puffle. You had to be there when Brockhampton had a chokehold on your high school friend group, and every time you would go to a Brockhampton concert, you would make 10 to 20 friends automatically because you all liked the Saturation albums. You had to be there.
You had to be there. But I don't wanna be there anymore. I don't. That's the past. 2018 was 20 years ago. Feel old yet? Not really. But I don't wanna be there. Because I'm in 2025 and it's now. And yes, these emotions and these feelings are so tied to this period in time, but it was best served at that time. I can't relate to those emotions anymore because that isn't my reality.
That isn't our reality. We don't live that anymore. And I think that we forget the beauty of nostalgia is living through it. That's the beauty of nostalgia. It's not that, whoa, this is gonna be nostalgic. No, no, it's the emotions that you have tied to these things, these arbitrary things. Sometimes they're material, sometimes they're experiences, but these things, these events,
It's the way in which we individually reacted and interacted with these things that give us that nostalgia. The feeling that I get when I see someone wearing a Deadmau5 hoodie, which is like rare, that is like finding diamonds in early Minecraft. It is very rare, but when I do see it, I'm thrown into my childhood bedroom in a house that no longer I have access to, is long gone,
And I feel my fingertips hitting my keyboard, running around in my house that I built in Minecraft on a server with my friends, listening to Ghost and stuff. That is what I feel it. I feel the headphones sitting on my ears. And it's beautiful. It's beautiful. But that trigger is not the same for somebody else. Maybe the nostalgia somebody else gets from that hoodie...
is an album that deadmau5 made being the soundtrack to their summer for me geez i mean my entire high school was scored by brockhampton it was i can't sit here and act too cool for school no the saturation albums that is that's what scored my high school experience it was blaring boogie on the way to school at 8 a.m which is insane And I was like, this is the coolest thing ever.
And that emotion will forever be the coolest thing ever. Have I grown out some of the songs? Yeah, of course, naturally. You grow out of clothing when you grow. You're not wearing your, you know, your children's place jeans, are you? No, that's not how it works. But we make our own nostalgia. We make our own nostalgia. And it is very important that we pay attention to the details that matter.
that matter, right? Because it makes you smile and it makes you appreciative of the present. Now, I try to Remember as much as I can. I try to pay attention to as much as I can in terms of events, in terms of daily things that I interact with. Right now, I live in Austin, Texas. I moved here in August. And this period of my life will one day be nostalgic. It will.
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Chapter 4: Why is nostalgia often tied to regret?
It will be a moment in time that I lived through and I had emotions tied to. And now with my prior experience and knowing how this will feel in the future, I do everything in my power to enjoy it. To enjoy it because I'll tell you one thing, man. I have regrets. And some of the nostalgia hits that I get from college, from hearing songs that I used to listen to on campus in Athens, in Georgia.
Man, they are intertwined with feelings of regret. Dang, why didn't I blank? You don't want to be like that. You don't want your feelings of nostalgia to be wrapped like a pig in a blanket. With feelings of... Why didn't I do that? No. No. And nostalgia and regret... They tiptoe a fine line. There's a fine line. Because... With a lot of nostalgia...
Chapter 5: How can we create our own nostalgia today?
comes this feeling of gratitude and being grateful and appreciative with feelings of regret it comes with a lot of sadness and sorrow if i'm completely honest and and realizing and reflecting on things that you didn't know at the time and you will have both You won't live a life that is completely full of no regrets.
You will always have regrets, but it's about minimizing the amount of regrets that you have and making sure the regrets that you have are really small. I wish I went to that restaurant before it closed down, but it's not a big deal because I lived a great life. I don't know, that sounds like a good time. But you had to be there. You had to be there. I feel as if now nostalgia is really a product.
It's sold to us through t-shirts, hoodies, Y2K. And it's cool. But that's not the thing. It will never be the thing, man. You can put on Silly Bands in 2025, as many as you want. You can dick out your whole arm with Silly Bands. It won't change the importance and the time and place that that had. It won't. You can't. You can't recreate it. You can't. You can get close.
You can bring that style justice. You can make people be like, that's really cool. You can replicate a certain timeframe. You can draw inspiration, but you can't recreate it. You can't. I don't think so. It will always feel different. The 2014 World Cup will always feel different than the 2022 World Cup.
Chapter 6: What are the dangers of commodified nostalgia?
And both of them, arguably, are some of the best World Cups of all time in football history, in soccer history, the best. But they feel different. Both of them. They feel different. There were different narratives. There were different emotions. There were different stakes. And each one is beautiful. And it deserves its own respect. And each one, you had to be there. You had to experience it.
You had to be waking up early in the United States to watch the first games in Qatar. You had to be glued to your television when Brazil won. Fumbled against the then-to-be world champions Germany. You had to be there. You had to see for your own eyes the clutch that was James Rodriguez. He was him. But all of these things, you know, in the future I can tell somebody. I can tell my kid.
I can tell, you know, when some youngin calls me unk and asks me about it, I can tell them, but you had to be there. You won't understand it. We won't understand it. We'll never understand what it was like to live through the 90s because we did not live through the 90s. We will never understand what it was like to live through the 2000s.
We can try to imagine what it looked like, but we will never get it. We will never understand it because what we are going through right now, that's that. This is our time for nostalgia. This is our time to live through it and take the best that we can from it. And I get it. I get it. It's... What is there to look forward to? We live in a tough world. We have overcooked it in certain aspects.
We have. I'm not saying that that's not true. But I'm saying that this is it. This is the reality. So it's now about what do we want to do in it? How do we want to interact with it so that it can feel as special as those younger days felt to us? What can we do? What can we create? What can we make to inspire the next? What can we do?
What can we do right now that will make our future generations better? when they're growing up, say, you had to be there. Because a lot of things for us feel hopeless. They do. Bruh, I get it. Life is hard. Life is hard. It is not easy. It is not Webkinz anymore. It is not soccer practice and go home and eat a cheeseburger anymore. You have things you have to do.
You have expectations you have to meet. It's hard. But there is beauty in the hardships. Those same hardships are things that make us go, you had to be there. Because when we looked at the things that brought us so much joy when we were kids... We looked with a lens that was unfiltered. It was stock. It was, it was unshaped. It was just magical. Everything was magical.
And when you keep growing up and you keep seeing things and you see the true nature of life and that life doesn't give a sigma sometimes. It will just smack you in the face until you get up. That is it. There's no nostalgia in that. But those hardships are worth the nostalgia. They're worth the good things that come out of it. They're worth striving for.
And I guess what I'm trying to say is you got to live your present so that you'll have more things of nostalgia in the future. You got to live your present with your friends doing things that you can do, that you can afford to do because it takes time and money. I get it.
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