Wait, Jack! You're sick of NOSTALGIA? Is this just other people's nostalgia or are you also sick of your own? Personally I delight in nostalgia. It gives me such beautifully clear access to memories and feelings that I would never be able to summon up intentionally. Like I'll feel hungry, which for some reasion will trigger some nostalgic memory of this place I used to get barbecued chicken at when I worked in this bookstore ten years ago and then I get intense memories of this girl that I used to go out with who I hadn't thought of in ages, but who I can now picture intimately in my mind, right down to details of my feelings for her, all because she and I used to get the half chicken special for $4.95 at this place ten years ago.
So, yeah, I love nostalgia. Heck, I'm even nostalgic for things that never happened to me... |
