🔼: [[⭐️ Emotions]] # Nostalgia[^1] >“The [[💡 Bittersweet|bittersweet]] side of appreciating life’s most precious moments is the unbearable awareness that those moments are passing.” >— Marc Parent Nostos = homecoming Alga = pain Nostalgia is a yearning for the way things used to be in our often idealized and self-protective version of the past. ### Personal Nostalgia A song, moment, time that meant something to you. Selective memory. You feel warmer and more open to making friends. ### Nostalgia for a past Forgetting the bad, makes us colder toward each other. Fuels white supremacy, racism, anti-immigration. Red flag: When you think your experience of the past was true for everyone. Good memory + Nostalgia = Missing [^1]: [[📖 ✅ Atlas of the Heart (Show)]] Episode 4