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user-inactivated  ·  1622 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 13, 2019

No, but nostalgia can have different definitions. Merriam-Webster defines it in a partially negative light. I meant in the Gatsby sense, you beat on against the current.

Do I want to relive my childhood? Hell fuckin' naw. But even when life is good now I can't help but feel... bored. It's like nothing really gets my blood racing anymore. The frontiers have been conquered. I've laid it all to rest. But then all of a sudden I hear a track from my friend's band almost a decade ago all the emotions come flooding back and it's too much to bear. I'm not sad it's over, I'm glad it happened but it's that feeling of having gained and lost some infinite thing.