Nostalgia

nostalgia (n.)

1726, “morbid longing to return to one’s home or native country, severe homesickness considered as a disease,” Modern Latin, coined 1688 in a dissertation on the topic at the University of Basel by scholar Johannes Hofer (1669-1752) as a rendering of German heimweh “homesickness” (for which see home + woe).
From Greek algos “pain, grief, distress” (see -algia) + nostos “homecoming,” from neomai “to reach some place, escape, return, get home,”

Originally in reference to the Swiss and said to be peculiar to them and often fatal, whether by its own action or in combination with wounds or disease.
[Dr. Scheuzer] had said that the air enclosed in the bodies of his countrymen, being in Æquilibrium with a rare and light air that surrounds them, was overloaded in lower countries with an air more dense and heavier, which compressing and obstructing the capillary vessels, makes the circulation slow and difficult, and occasions many sad symptoms. [Account of the publication of “Areographia Helvetiæ” in New Memoirs of Literature, London, March 1726]

“That’s all I have. I spent my life doing that. Collecting all that stuff, comics, books, and I just continued, even when it stopped giving me the powerful emotions I felt in my early 20s. I continued anyway. And now it’s all I have left. Knowledge and memories of stupid, futile things nobody cares about.” -Aksel telling Julie in the film The Worst Person In The World

Think I’m going down to the well tonight
And I’m gonna drink ’til I get my fill
And I hope when I get old I don’t sit around thinking about it
But I probably will
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
A little of the glory of, well time slips away
And leaves you with nothing mister but
Boring stories of

Glory days, yeah, they’ll pass you by
Glory days, in the wink of a young girl’s eye
Glory days, glory days
Yeah, they’ll pass you by
Glory days, in the wink of a young girl’s eye
Glory days, glory days -Song “Glory Days” by Bruce Springsteen

“In a few decades, you will be much older, you will remember how much younger you were today with nostalgia, and you will wish you had spent less time getting angry at things that never mattered at all, and more time treating the few people who cared with more kindness and love.” -Orange Book

It wasn’t as bad as you remember.

It wasn’t as good as you remember either.

Beware of nostalgia. It’s a disease.

It’ll keep you stuck in the past and outta the present.

Keep going. Keep learning. Keep growing. Keep trying.

Better days ahead my friend.