Nostalgia is where someone thinks and goes on there own world thinking about memories from years gone by. Nostalgia is a thing that goes in and out of memory, it’s as if yesterday those same lyrics, shot, or film made its way into one’s consciousness. The same is true for many people throughout the current student body they’re used to nostalgia as a newer sense of reality.
Today, nostalgia is in everyone’s hands if not minds 24/7, thanks to social media and the ability to document memories across the digital realm. The past is always in the present. Be it Facebook memories of pictures taken through a decade of time stacked on top of each other with various selfie angles or posts from three years ago today expressing the same gratitude as today, nostalgia exists in mere access. Be it songs people listened to just a few years back that resonate down the line with even friendships formed since elementary school through highly formative years, when people are exposed to their beloved things from the past, it creates a desire for simpler days.
Nostalgia is powerful because it pulls people back into places where they felt more confident, comfortable, validated, and thus whenever the present becomes overwhelming – too much going on, it becomes easier to reminisce about something happy, and thus nostalgia becomes a frequent occurrence in the lives of many far too embroiled in a complicated reality.
Nostalgia reigns supreme everywhere as well. Nostalgia exists for planned reboots of fan favorite movies and video games that take people back to their glory days to vintage clothing styles of the early aughts making a comeback. Nostalgia brings this all about in population and entertainment alike nostalgia brings upon feelings familiar to those who at one time were accustomed to such phenomena. Thus, while trends come and go but life’s realities continue to change, nostalgia will both reign supreme for good and bad, especially for anyone ever brought back to somewhere they’ve been before.
