ever find nostolgia depressing?

am i the only one that gets depressed when somthing realy nostolgic happens, it always makes me think of better time, key word better, it makes me feel sad knowing that, that time will never come again and i missed so many opportunitys in that time period, it has somthing to do with how i think the world around me's all going to sh-(stupid no cursing policy)

anyone else get kinda depressed when you get nostolgic

Only when I look at old pictures

i find the future to be more interesting then the past, even if the past was probably better , its not as interesting as the uncertain

I think I knwo what you are getting at. I think (to me anyway) there is a certain sadness about nostolgia. I don't know if I'd call it depressing, but there is a sense of "missing" the past, sort of like missing a friend that you haven't seen in a long time. It's "bitter-sweet" I guess.....?

when ever i watch the lion king

I hardly ever get nostolgic.

Dude, I kind of feel the same way. I sometimes long for those days, when I was a kid with no responsiblities, less stress, it was all about having fun.

When i feel nostolgia i get happy because of the good times but then i get sad because i won't get to relive them again.

I think I knwo what you are getting at. I think (to me anyway) there is a certain sadness about nostolgia. I don't know if I'd call it depressing, but there is a sense of "missing" the past, sort of like missing a friend that you haven't seen in a long time. It's "bitter-sweet" I guess.....?

YellowOneKinobi

Yeah I can see the "missing" part. When I listen to ATB's-Missing song, it reminds me of the past.

Not really...

Only when I look at old pictures

entropyecho

sort of. like the days when i played baseball. good times.

but when i have a son, he will play sports (yeah i'm gonna make him, at least for a little bit to see if he likes it) and i'll coach his little league team and all the kids will call me "coach" ^_^

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Only when I look at old pictures

comp_atkins

It's a travesty. :(

sort of. like the days when i played baseball. good times.

but when i have a son, he will play sports (yeah i'm gonna make him, at least for a little bit to see if he likes it) and i'll coach his little league team and all the kids will call me "coach" ^_^

needled24-7

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sort of. like the days when i played baseball. good times.

but when i have a son, he will play sports (yeah i'm gonna make him, at least for a little bit to see if he likes it) and i'll coach his little league team and all the kids will call me "coach" ^_^

YellowOneKinobi

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[QUOTE="needled24-7"]

sort of. like the days when i played baseball. good times.

but when i have a son, he will play sports (yeah i'm gonna make him, at least for a little bit to see if he likes it) and i'll coach his little league team and all the kids will call me "coach" ^_^

needled24-7

Yeah, not nearly as often as before though.

Yes, incredibly.

For me, it's like I'm caught up in a brief moment of bliss, before I crash back into reality. hockey73

Yes, I can attest to that. You think about the past, it makes you happy, and then you get back to the present and realize how sucky it is.

i can get that way yes. although i think it depends really on what it is. sometimes when i look at what i grew up watching and compare it to today's vapid cartoons, it makes me feel kinda sad that what i liked growing up is a thing of the past. it also makes me feel old.

Yeah, especially when I remember things where I could've done something, but didn't and now the chance is long gone.

Most of the time, yeah lol. It always brings back happy memories that makes me sad now because it's all in the past.

Well yes………. if you're depressed in the first place that is. If you come over all misty eyed because of yearning for a time when life was easier/simpler/happier/etc then of course it's going to be a pretty flat experience. Then again everything's depressing when you're depressed. Even when presented with the most positive news you can find a cloud somewhere in amongst that silver lining.

Sometimes if I hear a song from a Disney movie that I used to watch as a kid, I feel a little depressed.