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re: Is nostalgia bad for you?
Posted on 12/19/14 at 1:06 am to House_of Cards
Posted on 12/19/14 at 1:06 am to House_of Cards
I sometimes imagine what it would be like to go back to elementary school age again but still have my current mind. Be able to truly appreciate the lack of responsibility, just breeze through school, correct teachers a lot (and probably get in trouble for it), mind-frick the shite out of my older siblings, etc. It would suck to be broke and relive the basic cable/dialup internet days, though.
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Posted on 12/19/14 at 3:05 am to House_of Cards
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Posted on 12/19/14 at 6:26 am to House_of Cards
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Do things differently
That is not nostalgia, that's regret brah.
Sorry you suck at life
Posted on 12/19/14 at 7:42 am to House_of Cards
Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be. :sigh:
Posted on 12/19/14 at 8:29 am to House_of Cards
I don't think it's bad. When we moved back to New Orleans, I drove around and visited the home I grew up in, the elementary and junior high schools I attended, the first bowling alley to open in our area and just took in the surroundings. I did feel a loss afterwards, but it was for a very short time.
ETA: visited an antique store on Magazine St in what used to be Woolworth's. The entire lunch counter with appliances and signs was still intact. Many good times were spent there with my cousins who lived a few blocks from the store.
ETA: visited an antique store on Magazine St in what used to be Woolworth's. The entire lunch counter with appliances and signs was still intact. Many good times were spent there with my cousins who lived a few blocks from the store.
This post was edited on 12/19/14 at 8:34 am
Posted on 12/19/14 at 9:29 am to Isabelle
i get very nostalgic. I'm 38 and have lived in BR my whole life, so the changes around me are so gradual that I often don't realize how much has changed until I stop and look back.
I feel like nostalgia is good if you don't get so bogged down in it, that it depresses you and prevents you from moving forward.
My grandfather used to live off Chippewa near Exxon and we'd go to his house every Friday night for a big dinner. I remember driving by the Holsum Bread plant on the way and rolling the windows down and smelling the fresh baking bread. My grandfathers house was on a big lot and we'd run all over. It felt huge.
We'd eat crawfish or spaghetti or brisket and we'd be surrounded by dozens of the same people every week -- some of them family, some friends of my grandfathers, some neighbors.
I think about those days a lot. Me, my two brothers -- just passing time and goofing off.
Now, the bread factory is closed and I didn't even notice when. My grandfather passed away in 06' and his lot was cleared by Exxon sometime around then. The majority of the people who attended those dinners have since passed as well.
I drove by my grandfathers lot recently. It's a ghost town. Exxon's cleared almost every house from his street.
It was crazy to me to see how small his lot actually was.
Most of the things I remember from my childhood are gone now or dramatically changed. It does make me very nostalgic when so much is so different.
I feel like nostalgia is good if you don't get so bogged down in it, that it depresses you and prevents you from moving forward.
My grandfather used to live off Chippewa near Exxon and we'd go to his house every Friday night for a big dinner. I remember driving by the Holsum Bread plant on the way and rolling the windows down and smelling the fresh baking bread. My grandfathers house was on a big lot and we'd run all over. It felt huge.
We'd eat crawfish or spaghetti or brisket and we'd be surrounded by dozens of the same people every week -- some of them family, some friends of my grandfathers, some neighbors.
I think about those days a lot. Me, my two brothers -- just passing time and goofing off.
Now, the bread factory is closed and I didn't even notice when. My grandfather passed away in 06' and his lot was cleared by Exxon sometime around then. The majority of the people who attended those dinners have since passed as well.
I drove by my grandfathers lot recently. It's a ghost town. Exxon's cleared almost every house from his street.
It was crazy to me to see how small his lot actually was.
Most of the things I remember from my childhood are gone now or dramatically changed. It does make me very nostalgic when so much is so different.
Posted on 12/19/14 at 9:36 am to House_of Cards
A little nestalgia is good. It keeps you grounded and gives one perspective. Too much is bad as it leads to delusion and not grasping reality.
To be honest, I would love to be a tourist to the past, in some respects. I think it would be fun to spend a day in BR in the 80s, when the PMAC was the centerpiece of Rock 'n Roll, the drinking age was 18, Cortana was cruising, white people lived north of Florida Boulevard, The Broadmoor Theatre was showing the latest hits, and Pancho's Sopatillas were still hot, sweet, and sticky.
I think it would also be fun to take a trip to Gonzales in the late 60s for an evening at the Jungle House or a trip to the drive-in movie theater or the skating rink.
To be honest, I would love to be a tourist to the past, in some respects. I think it would be fun to spend a day in BR in the 80s, when the PMAC was the centerpiece of Rock 'n Roll, the drinking age was 18, Cortana was cruising, white people lived north of Florida Boulevard, The Broadmoor Theatre was showing the latest hits, and Pancho's Sopatillas were still hot, sweet, and sticky.
I think it would also be fun to take a trip to Gonzales in the late 60s for an evening at the Jungle House or a trip to the drive-in movie theater or the skating rink.
Posted on 12/19/14 at 10:17 am to kingbob
Or the old theme park in BR
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