Why would someone want to visit 'nostalgia'?
I guess 'Nostalgia' is like an easy virtual-meal.
You might be hungry and you might want to eat something
Now, what is it you can do ? :
i. Do some work or sweat and then earn your meal
ii. Or visit nostalgia. In 'nostalgia' one has the luxury of gaining a good dosage of ego-boost by just visualising the amount of hard-work you
might have done 'once upon a time' and the way you relished the fruits you got through that sweat.
Is 'nostalgia' good ?
Sadly no. What nostalgia provides is a fake self-esteem.
Why do we still visit and revisit 'nostalgia' no matter how 'stupid' it is really ?
Hmm.. that's a good question really :-)
I think self-gratification is the key.
And the moment one does not want to sweat any further, mentally one gets transported to nostalgia.
But the sad part of nostalgia is, 'nostalgia' does not pay, since the 'past' does not matter, while the 'present' always does.
Does yahoo groups or orkutting or clubbing onself to groups via alumni network or other groupings based on race/religion/nationality/caste/interests, involve revisiting nostalgia?
Yes, since we are more comfortable with folks we knew or we worked with or we studied with, one is bound to feel more at-home.
Everytime we associate ourself with a community i.e family or friends or religion or race, one is just trying to find a way to be @home rather than explore oneself in foreign places.
Guess, sustaining one's contacts(network) is an impediment, cause that is bound to allow the gradual evolution of onself and instead will provide a 'readymade short-cut' and thus, bound to kill one's originality or individuality.
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Nostalgia need not always be negative. To a great extent revisiting one's past and re-living shared memories can perhaps help us understand our present better!!! Also interactions with our past selves...or memories of the past selves can I think play an important role in shaping our present understanding of who we are and what we have become!!!
schizoid,
This post-mortem is not really helping anyone really - is my point. What it does is, to give an excuse to glorify one's past exploits and in the process lose track of the present.
Nostalgia is nothing but an escape-path from the present and since the protagonist knows for sure that this escape-from-present is just temporary and the present is always just before you no matter what, there is a huge pointlessness to this entire exercise.
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