What truly is nostalgia? Is it simply a yearning to return to a bygone era? Is the past special because of how connected? Perhaps there is something more profound.
It’s interesting you bring this up as another great writer mentioned the pull of nostalgia here (https://open.substack.com/pub/brianniemeier/p/why-im-done-with-the-90s-and-you?r=92l7b&utm_medium=ios). I think one’s childhood is usually a rosier picture unless there is abuse. But then once a person becomes a new creation then we forget all those times before that moment. As Paul writes, “Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” (Phil 3:13-14).
It’s interesting you bring this up as another great writer mentioned the pull of nostalgia here (https://open.substack.com/pub/brianniemeier/p/why-im-done-with-the-90s-and-you?r=92l7b&utm_medium=ios). I think one’s childhood is usually a rosier picture unless there is abuse. But then once a person becomes a new creation then we forget all those times before that moment. As Paul writes, “Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” (Phil 3:13-14).