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Post by Ganbare! on Oct 23, 2009 14:03:37 GMT -5
Certainly because of important changes having occured in my life in the past few months I've been feeling quite nostalgic about my childhood.
As a young adult, it's crazy how many times me and friends or acquaintances have recalled fond memories of the past, personal experiences or back then pop culture and fads alike.
I was wondering where do you guys draw the line. Until when it is still healthy to think about the past.
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Post by betahat on Oct 23, 2009 16:11:42 GMT -5
I recently ran across an ex-gf (through facebook actually) and it did make me think a bit about times past. I don't really have any regrets, but I do feel older and I do look back fondly at particular moments in my life. Life is really a balance of reflecting on the past, living in the moment and thinking about the future, so I try not to think too much about it (if anything I'm a bit too future oriented). I think I get what you mean about the type of nostalgia you have with friends though or people who grew up in roughly the same time and place - hour long conversations about toys we used to play with, people we knew, trips we did together, tv shows we used to watch, etc. I don't see any harm in that.
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Post by i move the stars for no one on Oct 23, 2009 17:24:24 GMT -5
nostalgia's kind of dangerous for me.i try to avoid it.
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Post by Groink on Oct 23, 2009 18:32:35 GMT -5
nostalgia's kind of dangerous for me.i try to avoid it. Dit-TO for me. I end up wallowing in it.
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Post by i move the stars for no one on Oct 23, 2009 19:45:29 GMT -5
exactly.
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Post by alisa on Oct 24, 2009 1:05:25 GMT -5
Nothing wrong with acknowledging the past provided you're not still living there! Memories are just that. I have some friendships which revolve around nostalgia! Sometimes it can be hard to live in the now, but we all have to realise with time comes age and we all wish we could be young again, but we can't! We just need to find other things to make the now more interesting that the past, so that we can have other things to be nostalgic about in the future!! haha
It's funny, but a line from Knocked Up put it beautifully where Paul Rudd's character says something like, "i wish ANYTHING made me as happy as bubbles make children" (or whatever it is the kids were playing with at the time).
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Post by palaver on Oct 24, 2009 21:19:34 GMT -5
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Post by Ganbare! on Oct 25, 2009 17:59:03 GMT -5
It's not just limited to my childhood, I'm contemplating how quickly my life and the whole world has changed over a decade.
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Post by alisa on Oct 26, 2009 0:57:07 GMT -5
Yeah, I can attest to that - I miss opening the mailbox and maybe finding a letter in there from a friend or one of my penpals! I also miss memorising people's phone numbers - I still try to do it for all the important numbers in my life and find it really depressing that my own husband doesn't know my mobile!! So not right Also back in the day for someone to cheat on their partner they'd actually have to go out to meet someone (aside from work) - now they just need to browse the computer. Same with porn - people don't need to go out and buy it anymore. It's all really sad and completely corrupting society!
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Post by waywardwolf on Oct 26, 2009 4:40:31 GMT -5
^ That's technology's true purpose, to make sinning easier.
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Post by hypeforlife91 on Oct 26, 2009 5:29:44 GMT -5
^ Yeah I hate the internet. >:[
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Post by palaver on Oct 26, 2009 13:23:45 GMT -5
^ Yeah I hate the internet. >:[ As a person who hates another or as a person who sees their own defects in someone else? Maybe you're just not googling the right things. Even for people full of spite, there is much fun to be had on the internet. All you need is a phone number and you can send untraceable demonic threats (with choice of demonic voice actors) through a web based dialer. Better to sin early than sin late because though God may never forget, you will, and there might be some forgiveness in that.
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Post by palaver on Oct 26, 2009 13:35:50 GMT -5
It's not just limited to my childhood, I'm contemplating how quickly my life and the whole world has changed over a decade. It's not that the world stood still while you were a child, it's now that you're starting to notice the change. Did you know that you perceive half of your life at the age of 20? What you experienced back then was slow motion--the sensitivity of a developing brain to the passing of time. But as you age, things become routine and the mind leans on the convenient fast forward. I reckon you're frightened at already living half your perceptible life and concerned over new speed at which you're life is accelerating? Objectively, nothing has changed, so there is no need for worry. It's only a short wait to our next destination.
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Post by Ganbare! on Oct 27, 2009 5:05:42 GMT -5
Information technology has revolutionized the way we see the world, interact with others, work etc. The world has never changed so dramatically in a decade's time, it has nothing to do with me being too young to notice. Today's world is filled with minor events, initiatives that didn't not exist mere years ago and this trend is intensifying.
Life used to be slow-paced almost uneventful compared to now at least that's what Modern History taught me.
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Post by palaver on Oct 27, 2009 12:41:26 GMT -5
It's hard to say that the world was more uneventful--especially through the limited purview of youth. As for technology, you're only to suppose to start complaining about until you become too old to figure it out. This technological progression is just another continuation of the new toys we received every birthday and holiday. Only the emerging economies should go through any sort of technological culture shock. Which is why I asked about the setting of your childhood? Did you ride a wooden horse all the way to adulthood... so to speak?
Even having spent some of my childhood in South America, strongly connected to nature and my grandfather's ranch, I didn't experience any sort of alienation from technology. I was already reassembling computers at the age of 9 and evolved into the nerd that I am today without any hiccups along the way.
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