[RetroRick21]

Lately i've been in Nostalgia-Rama...the other night I looked up a Fisher Price record player that I had when I was 6-7


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The image, almost had me break down in tears. It's bothering me that i'm easily affected by thoughts and objects of the past. I've recently been buying things that I've gotten rid of a long time ago. I don't know what the hell is triggering these little sporadic nostalgia driven lapses in judgement either.

Does anyone else have similar instances

[Franklin71]

I like things from the 1970s, but they never make me break down in tears. Except when I watch VH1's "I Love the '70s." Then, I cry for the fate of mankind.

[RetroRick21]

lol Yeah, but take notice of that 'almost'
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I don't want you to think i'm some sissy cry baby =P

[Lawliet]

I had it yesterday when I was walking through a local graveyard and I spotted the gravestone of an old victim.

[Monte314]

I know what you mean. I keep things that belonged to my father and grandfather, and I have some toys that I got when I was very young. I love to look through the old papers that my parents and grandparents left behind, and remember how life used to be... if just for a little while.

[azelismia]

No real nostalgia here, I wish I could wipe the 70's out of my mind forever. I remember even when I was a wee lass of 5 or 6 HATING neon. it drove me mad. I thought they had horrid taste in architecture for the most part. Except for the airports. I approved of that. Just not the neon getting there and the other many and varied tacky colors they seemed to prefer. I also abhorred crochet parties and tupperware parties, let alone teh avon parties I got dragged to.

My parents used to play music while I slept too. it's the best way to brain wash people into liking music. I did experiments on my mother in the 80's to prove this. As a result I like all sorts of 70's butt rock , folk rock and other various horrors.

No tears shed for nostalgia here.

[Lawliet]

I received my grandfather's leg that was blown off in World War II as a gift when I was young. People seem to experience strong emotions when they see it on my desk. Nostalgia for them?

[azelismia]

	Originally Posted by Lawliet To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I received my grandfather's leg that was blown off in World War II as a gift when I was young. People seem to experience strong emotions when they see it on my desk. Nostalgia for them?

Dude, you are trying SO HARD to be a shock jock... it shows...

[pensivemuse7]

wow, i had a toy record player like that as a kid... wonder where it went hmmm....

i do get nostalgia now and then when i read something written by me or someone else to me that i had forgotten. or when i smell a certain scent. then i take a little 5 min field trip into la la land. but then i realize, that it was in the past and just cherish it for what it was and think about how it made me how i am today, even if it's just something as little as a toy

[Lawliet]

	Originally Posted by azelismia To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Dude, you are trying SO HARD to be a shock jock... it shows...

Not much trying involved. I would agree that boredom is.

[anamatria]

	Originally Posted by Monte314 To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I know what you mean. I keep things that belonged to my father and grandfather, and I have some toys that I got when I was very young. I love to look through the old papers that my parents and grandparents left behind, and remember how life used to be... if just for a little while.

I know exactly what you mean! I love looking through old pictures and memorabilia that my family has saved through the generations.

My grandfather was actually showing me an old history book my great-great grandfather had when he got to Tennessee that logged the start of the town he ended up in, with his notes and everything!

I also like seeing pictures of my parents behaving badly, so I know that kind of behavior is genetic.
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[RoseRock]

Nostalgia hits when you least expect it. At least for me it does and the effect it has is really horrible. You get thrown back into this moment, a time in your life where you may or may not have been happy and it brings back all of these emotions you thought were buried. Specifically for me I won't think so much about my childhood (although I do miss the freedom of it a lot!) I think more of past events that have changed who I am as an adult. Some nostalgia is good....the happy memories anyway.

[Pandemonium]

Personal nostalgia does not bother me but I especially hate nostalgic people.

[RetroRick21]

	Originally Posted by Pandemonium To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Personal nostalgia does not bother me but I especially hate nostalgic people.

Yeah, to each his own, you know ?

[Nikita]

I am more of a compulsive burner of bridges. I routinely get rid of the past. While I've gotten better about not doing this quite as much with people (so far), it's habitual as to the material. I think that when you move a lot growing up you learn not to get too attached to things themselves because you have to pare down what you bring with you to the next place. It's actually something I'm grateful for because I can remember the past without being tied to it.

[Pandemonium]

	Originally Posted by RetroRick21 To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Yeah, to each his own, you know ?

I think I sounded like I was aiming my comment at you guys which was not my intentions. :P

I was more or less thinking about my family calling me and saying "Remember when........."

[Vagrant]

Ironically, I have a lot of nostalgia for certain digital worlds. :P There's still a forum I visit now and then out of pure nostalgic reasons.

[RetroRick21]

	Originally Posted by Pandemonium To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I think I sounded like I was aiming my comment at you guys which was not my intentions. :P I was more or less thinking about my family calling me and saying "Remember when........."

lol Yeah, and I might have jumped the gun in assuming that. No worries.
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[Freedom Geek]

Occasionally though I keep the clarity of mind to recognize that due to technological advances the world is slowly getting better.

[Hashim]

Very rarely but they are quite strong.

[BostonIan]

*There was a time when nostalgia affected me, I remember it fondly...*

Kidding, that was a bad joke. I get nostalgia mostly with places, being somewhere I hadn't been since another time, and it's like going back to that time. Old pictures, too. But nostalgia's a weird feeling, feeling every emotion at the same time, I'm not sure I like it too much.

[MacGuffin]

Yes, but I'm INTP.

We can be pretty nostalgic.

[changos]

Oh yeah, I love nostalgia, specially music. I find joy in that.

After talking with some friends (and two minutes thinking back after posting here) by comparison I can say I have done a lot of things I wanted to do, and some have gone pretty fine for me. Thats why I enjoy thinking back.

Somebody said something like "live a good life, so when you are old you can remember... and enjoy it twice"

[Olympics2010]

Yes, I can kinda relate to this, and there are three things that I can think of to mention about it:

First, it's definetly true in my case too that I sometimes get very nostalgic about past things, places, people, or for the way that things once were. For example, some of my junior high school days when I was able to enjoy the company of all kinds of different people more freely, before the real concerns of adult life hit in, and I had to start to seriously wonder about school, work, future, etc. Another example is some of my childhood carefree memories of spending time with my mom.

Second, I do want to mention how there is a certain part about these memories that I want to "relive", or "keep alive" in my life today, so that I feel like there is an actual connection between the things in the past that I feel nostalgic about, and my life now. I see a point to this, so it makes sense for me to try to create this link. I think that I realize this by keeping a special box of trinkets from the past, or objects of special meaning: a watch that was given to me which I won't wear because it's a keepsake that belongs in the box, drawings, pictures, cards, pieces of rocks, etc. Sometimes I consider how I pay more attention to filling out this box, and keeping it safe, than I do in buying new things that I need like a new desk, or other things that I actually need to use. In a way, everything becomes a keepsake if I use it, so I don't give things away or buy new ones if they have worked for a long time, even if they are getting older and need upgrading. Seeing me in a really run-down pair of sneakers is not uncommon, not because the shoes don't really function they're best anymore, but because they have been with me so long that they have now become a keepsake, and so I keep them even if they are old (so long as I can keep walking in them).

Thirdly, I do think that while it is important to keep a connection with the part of the past that meant something to me, and which I feel nostalgic about, I also see a point in focusing on not going back to the past way of life. What worked then worked then, and that's what made it so wonderful to remember today, yet it might not work so well now. Having grown up, I can't go back to being a kid. I can rejoyce in those memories, but it's important for to realize that I must now focus on living in the moment, on the new things that mean something to me today. The fact that some of the things we enjoyed so much belong in the past is probably partially what makes us feel so nostalgic about them today. It's tough that we've somehow outgrown such good times. Yet we can be happy with the memory that such great times even existed, and hopefully there'll be more.

[vertex]

i collect old rave records from when i was young
for some reason i dont mind paying out of the ass for it and love em to death

i wonder if im dispositioned to like nostalgic items as an INTJ now