The Nostalgic Memories Of Nostalgia

Because they are something then you can not see it or touch it, but it always twinkle and shining in your memory. We no longer see it surely and clearly. It just marks a good mark in our memory forever. But does those old days such good? We have better science and technology today; We have countless goods in our market;We have better medical care and education today. Why we still love those old days? I think we know the answer. Our feeling about those old days are not just good or better. It look more like a vision then fraud by our memories.This vision does not mean “want”. It look more like someday you meet your first crush, you won’t fall in love with her or him anymore, but you want just talk to her or him.When you meet her or him after so many years, you get a special feeling.This feeling bring you back in time. In the real world you two are having some insignificant chatter.In your memory you sitting at the old school playground. A smiling girl stand in the warm sunlight.She has a bright eyes and long neck. You speak to her with confidence and composure.She looks up into your eyes. Your cheerful mood such as the leaver on the trees,sing with the wind in spring. Your face seem like more handsome than usual.Someday, you willing to do anything for this vision.Someday, I willing to do anything for this vision. Because we know can not go back to that afternoon; we can not sitting at that old school playground again;

Chuck Klosterman, in the article “Nostalgia on Repeat,” there is two sides of nostalgia, how it can be good and bad for you. Klosterman, gives examples from both sides. Memories are the past, it is ok to remember them and think about them, maybe even smile from them, just don’t live there. Looking at the past can hinder growth, if a person cannot move on from it and wants to keep reliving that part of their life. The Authors purpose is to shine light on both sides of nostalgia, it is not all bad to remember the past and even flash back to it. However, trying to relive the past is not all good either. It stunts growth and keeps a person from living their life in the now. Chuck Klosterman, writes in a casual tone for those readers that are too

Nostalgia is the feeling of missing the past. In “Grape Sherbet” by Rita Dove, the speaker develops this feeling by using past-tense verbs. The speaker also uses family to show that she misses the past. Furthermore, the speaker indicates the fleeting nature of time by using themes of death. The speaker in “Grape Sherbet” by Rita Dove has an attitude of nostalgia.

Nostalgia plays a big role in one’s life who’s grown up around the lake and it’s atmosphere.

//Nostalgia- the longing for the past; the current era does not have the same fascination.

“I didn’t think the Twinkie would thrill the way it used to, and it didn’t. But it tasted like memory” In this quote from “Goodbye to My Twinkie Days”, author Bich Minh Nguyen, is describing a sense of nostalgia. Nostalgia, as defined by the Cambridge English dictionary, is a feeling of pleasure and sometimes slight sadness at the same time as an individual thinks about things that happened in the past. This feeling can be evoked through old photographs, food, music, and even literature. Nostalgia provides a temporary relief of present times, which is why people actively seek a feeling of nostalgia.

In Daniel Gilbert’s “Reporting Live from Tomorrow”, Gilbert makes use of statistics, studies, and experiments to convey a multitude of ideas, primarily the concept that while many people are opposed to, or are in disbelief of it, turning to surrogates as means of predicting our own future is quite effective. Gilbert’s concepts and theories are quite important to take into consideration not only as a general message of how human beings tend to let factors such as their imagination or their own self-image cloud their perspective on the future, but rather as an alternative viewpoint and how through surrogates, we are able to make more accurate predictions on our own future, such as what will be providing us happiness when

The more I spend outside reminiscing of my past while I look at my yard, the more I continue to feel nostalgic of my past, albeit many others would probably have the same memories of their past if they reminisced as long as I have today. I feel as though life does not get better as you age, but the best moments in life are experienced when we are young as these are also the moments we remember the most of. But it does not matter how I feel, for life keeps on going despite your feelings of it; I am reminded by this when I look at the insects and bugs waddling around in the grass just as I have seen it so many years before. I see people going to work and coming home from work everyday like a computer program that has been programmed to do one thing and do it correctly for the rest of their lives; it’s similar to all life and patterns can be seen everywhere, from the colossal trees towering over me to the miniscule insects crawling around underneath

Nostalgia is America's fatal disease. We love to "go back," to talk of the good old days, to wish we could return to an era forever gone. This rhetoric that warms our hearts, though, is, ironically, the impetus for our national self-destruction. Nostalgia valorizes a past that never was, casts a dark shadow of distortion across the present, and prevents us from projecting a viable, sincere vision of a better future. When we, as a nation, say we want to go back to a time past, that's very often what happens, for such talk sends us into a regressive downward spiral that prevents critical social progress in America.

Memories of the past has influenced many of the early traditional historians in creating their ideas of early Texas History. Personal narratives passed on to historians became the foundation for many of the early writers in developing an early identity for the state. Unfortunately, many of the early histories supported and primarily Anglo culture and a Top-Down approach to history. Most of the early history was written relative to the Anglo viewpoint and biased opinions. Fortunately, many underrepresented cultures now have a voice and the capabilities to provide personal accounts and history as passed down within said culture. Now, new historians can use personal narratives and memories from within other cultures to validate or

No Country for Old Men is a novel that revolves heavily around the theme of nihilism and nostalgia. Main characters, Sheriff Bell and Anton Chigurh represent this immensely throughout the novel.

In the Scott Pilgrim universe time is a central concept. Bryan Lee O’Malley expertly layers the familiar styles of classic videogames, music, and pop culture throughout the series to create nostalgia. The author uses this nostalgia in order to emphasize the importance of the past and show Scott’s inability to grow. As Ryan Lizardi puts it in his essay Scott Pilgrim vs. hegemony: nostalgia, remediation, and heteronormativity, “Scott must deal with his past… his inability to grow up compared with other characters, and…conquer Ramona’s romantic history before they can move on in their relationship,” (Lizardi, ). The intertwining themes of past and immaturity reappear throughout the series through the previously state medium of nostalgia.

To relate the topic of nostalgia with food to my life, I recall a cherished memory I have about making enchiladas with my grandma when I was nine. My mom’s father is hispanic, but her mother is not, so she learned how to make hispanic food just for him. I have always admired this, because she learned how to do this just to make my grandpa happy. She made us many hispanic dishes, but my favorite is still her enchiladas. I still remember the smell of the chicken and beef that my grandma had prepared

As Emerson perceived the world, “Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoes to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time” (“Self-Reliance” 833-834). Even if a man finds himself with both self-trust and originality, he may never realize his true potential if he is preoccupied with past events or future fortunes. Emerson finds these obsessions to be utterly useless: “Discontent is the want of self-reliance; it is the infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend to your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired” (838). In contemporary society, a willingness to “live in the moment” is highly regarded, especially among youth, yet this acceptance seems to wane with age. Nevertheless, excessive anxiousness and nostalgia are a waste of the potential that can be realized when the truths of the present are

People who are nostalgic about childhood, were obviously never children. Few people can remember the truth about adolescence. Their minds "censor" their memories; and have them believe that being a teenager was was one big party, free of cares and responsibilities. Well let me say this, you couldnOt be more wrong if you had a lobotomy. There aren't that many adults around who realise what adolescence was really like. The anguish, the fear, the anxiety, the stress. People don't remember those problems because they want to forget them.