Nostalgic sadness

One More Toy

Today I got sad

I thought back to summers of when I was a teen just chilling playing ps2 with the brothers until all hours of the night. Going to the beach and relaxing, addicted to games such as crash bandicoot and gran turismo, playing multi-player till the wee hours of the morning

But now those days are gone, and will never be back

So Ah do you ever get a sense of sadness thinking of the past?

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All the time but you'll probably be sad in 10 years time looking back on now and all the time you wasted regretting things instead of making new memories

mfceiling

One More Toy wrote: »

Today I got sad

I thought back to summers of when I was a teen just chilling playing ps2 with the brothers until all hours of the night. Going to the beach and relaxing, addicted to games such as crash bandicoot and gran turismo, playing multi-player till the wee hours of the morning

But now those days are gone, and will never be back

So Ah do you ever get a sense of sadness thinking of the past?

Yep...it's just like yesterday that me and my mates used to head out on a Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday night!! Drinking a few beers, snogging a few girls and life was easy. Now it's work, kids, sleep and constantly broke and tired. It's like waking up every morning and getting a large kick in the testicles.

tomwaterford

No...while my childhood wasn't bad as such (couple unavoidable awlful things aside!)..I've no intention of going bad to that miserableness again and besides I'm at the happiest,healthiest and fittest I've ever been right now

How Soon Is Now

Sometimes i think about whats it gonna be like when im older and i cant play computer games at all cause im all bandy and old!!!

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

No! Everyone thinks being a teenager was the best year's of my life. BS! Trying to walk the tightrope of fitting in with my peers whilst keeping my folks happy.

I'm happier now with my own money & independence, thanks.

Omackeral

I find nostalgia to be a mix of sadness and longing for times gone past but also a certain happiness that you got to have the experiences. It's definitely a sweet and sour feeling.

One More Toy

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

Sometimes i think about whats it gonna be like when im older and i cant play computer games at all cause im all bandy and old!!!

William it's really nothing, it was your life

Tell me how

One More Toy wrote:

So Ah do you ever get a sense of sadness thinking of the past?

Big time. Genuine issue for me that I seem to focus on the past. Can tell myself that it wasn't perfect back then, it's behind us, there's nothing to be gained and so on but still find it comes to mind a lot.

Am envious of people who can always look forward; without being dismissive or forgetting the past but not allowing it to dominate them.

Mr_Muffin

Yeah life is pretty miserable these days. Wish it would just hurry up and end.

How Soon Is Now

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

Yeah life is pretty miserable these days. Wish it would just hurry up and end.

Lovely :pac:

Had a great childhood. Not a computer game in our house though, a couple of friends had Ataris and Commodore 64s. And only 2 tv channels.

Old Perry

Bernard: We have to write for ourselves as children.
You know, when innocence was legal.
When summers seemed to go on forever.
And you'd cycle miles just to tell a friend you'd seen a frog.
When you could play in your back yard with any old thing.
Manny: All I needed was a was a breeze block.
And and a bit of an old bone.
Bernard:I bet you could make whole worlds?
Manny: Oh, I could! One minute I'd be laying siege to a castle with a bit of an old bone and the next minute I'd be setting sail on a Spanish galleon towards a breeze block.

Alf Veedersane

Nostalgia just has all the shi*ty bits erased.

Sunday night dread was far more acute.

The long enjoyable summers weren't all that long.

Glenroe.

justchecked

One More Toy wrote: »

Today I got sad

I thought back to summers of when I was a teen just chilling playing ps2 with the brothers until all hours of the night. Going to the beach and relaxing, addicted to games such as crash bandicoot and gran turismo, playing multi-player till the wee hours of the morning

But now those days are gone, and will never be back

So Ah do you ever get a sense of sadness thinking of the past?

If you really want to fck yourself up try watching some of your old favorite music videos, you realize that the guys in the video used to be older than you and to you they were grown-ups, guys who knew what it was all about, now its like 'hey who are those young guys' or 'they look like fcking kids'.
Then it hits you.

lulu1

I just loved the dance hall era where you had the band playing from 12 to 2 Then when it was over you would go to the chip van and then you would be running around looking for someone to give you a lift home

I know there are still plenty of places with live bands but its just not the same

Cold War Kid

Yeah I sometimes pine for the age when I wasn't long out of college and was working, but still young enough to have a bit of a studenty life - with added money. Best time of my life (height of the Celtic tiger also - I wasn't into the off-the-chart consumerism, but there was a really great sense of positivity about, even if it was all just an illusion).

I don't think about it too long though - no point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnfHdZrmMAw

boobar

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

Sometimes i think about whats it gonna be like when im older and i cant play computer games at all cause im all bandy and old!!!

And I think about life and I think about death

And neither one particularly appeals to me

NachoBusiness

It's all relative really, as no two people's reasons for being nostalgic about days long past are going to be the same, nor understandable. Someone constantly being nostalgic about the past when they are healthy, have all their family in the same fine fettle, are loved, and in general have the world at their feet, is somewhat different to someone being constantly nostalgic as a result of their life being destroyed by a spinal injury or some other life altering tragedy. The latter is clearly more a understandable for someone to get caught up in a loop of nostalgic thinking. People often tell such folk that they shouldn't look back too much but unfortunately, for some, the view can be a hell of a lot better looking in that direction, sad as that may be.

Either way, it's quite normal to hanker after better times and also for the happiness you once had to be used as a measure for want you want in the future. It's human nature but sadly in life being as happy as you once were is not always a possibility and so having it as a goal might just lead to someone setting themselves up for their inevitable downfall. Mic Christopher I think touched on in this in the song 'Hey Day' particularly when with the line. "We can make our heyday last forever and ain't that what it's all about?" Well, I'd personally say the answer to that is is 'yeah, that is what it's all about', but only IF that's in anyway possible, but again, unfortunately for many, it's sadly not.

BBDBB

Youth, it's wasted on the young

Sunnyisland

I get very nostalgic about places and the people I were with then, it all seems so great and fun when the reality of it is that it wasent always like that, still it's nice to look back fondly.

Agricola

Of course and certainly more in the summer time since it is so intrinsically linked to childhood.

It all boils down to freedom from responsibility, having lots of time to do what you want to do and just having as much fun as you possibly can all the time.

Wouldnt we all like to go back to that for even a day.

Filmer Paradise

justchecked wrote: »

If you really want to fck yourself up try watching some of your old favorite music videos, you realize that the guys in the video used to be older than you and to you they were grown-ups, guys who knew what it was all about, now its like 'hey who are those young guys' or 'they look like fcking kids'.
Then it hits you.

I remember going to a Rolling Stones gig once. Never a big fan, just went because at the time I thought this could be their last tour.

I was in my early 20s at the time & they just seemed so impossibly old to be Rock Stars on stage. I just wanted to be able to tell people in future years that I had seen them live really.

That was 1990!

They did plenty of tours since then & will probably do more.

The scary thing is, is that I'm now about the same age as they were when I saw them 25 years ago!:eek:

Alf Veedersane

Agricola wrote: »

Of course and certainly more in the summer time since it is so intrinsically linked to childhood.

It all boils down to freedom from responsibility, having lots of time to do what you want to do and just having as much fun as you possibly can all the time.

Wouldnt we all like to go back to that for even a day.

Not now.

It's August.

Ads for The Rose of Tralee have appeared.

The Dread would be a thick miasma by now.

*shudder*

Junkyard Tom

Nostalgia was much better back in the day.

The Backwards Man

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

eternal

Time appeared slower when you were younger because you had less time to compare it to. Now that you're older, time moves faster and therefore memories are full of languid days of Summer. Realistically nostalgia in itself is something that appeals to us yet when really investigated, disappears as it is not real but the mind imagining that somehow what has come before is better than what we have now.

I only get nostalgiac for things that never actually happened. My childhood and teenage years were pretty damn dull in all honesty.

Cold War Kid

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Nostalgia was much better back in the day.

Nostalgia in 1998 was great, but nostalgia in 2003 was crap.

BuilderPlumber

Funny thing is we all look back to our childhood and schooldays and remember things with affection. BUT of course not everything was as we like to see it. Sure, Christmas morning and the buildup to it was very exciting then. Watching films at Christmas was also a fond memory. As was getting summer holidays.

But, there were a lot of downsides too. Like I remember being in tears the day before return to school in September and January. The mere mention of the Rose of Tralee sent one into dread. Also, the stress of having to learn off some cathecism question or Irish poem or whatever.

We now tend to look back at schoolfriends who we never meet or are not even close to anymore. Some may well be even dead. These people seemed to mean the world to us then and even now, yet we never kept up the friendships!

We tend to look back at events from our schooldays and say they were our best days. But at the time, they did not seem to be. Many people will describe the Glenroe programme as the death knell for the weekend and the dread of returning to school. Or the thrill of watching it on a bank holiday or Christmas holiday time and not having to go back the next day.

But how much was real or how much is just rose coloured glasses looking back at an earlier time? For starters, those 'friends' we remember so dearly often were nasty to us and there was as much petty bickering over things than real friendship in the classroom and schoolyard. I can not count 1 person I am now close to from those days and we have all gone to different places. Many of the movies I enjoyed at Christmas then I returned to out of nostalgia and some were excellent (Raiders of the lost ark) and some were poor (Back to the future). I did not like Glenroe much then and still would not like it much now. Stress still exists in my life and comes and goes every bit as much as it did then. I still enjoy Christmas and do not know how I managed back then without wine! So life now v life then? Probably about the same!

Chain Smoker