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obsession with the past/nostalgia

  • 21-01-2013 6:43am
    #1
    squirestarter
    Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭


    Is an obsession with nostalgia and one's own past essentially a denial of one's present? Its escapism, but is it basically just self denial?


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  • #2
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,463 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    MOD COMMENT:
    Please be advised that this OP has not been framed as a philosophical question, rather it might better fit a discussion in Humanities. It has being moved LOCKED, so that the mods may review it for appropriateness.


  • #3
    Eliot Rosewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭Eliot Rosewater


    Thread reopened at the OP's request - though maybe it would attract more contributions if the OP expanded upon their question.

    ER.


  • #4
    squirestarter
    Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭squirestarter


    My question is basically that if somebody is fixated with their past or with a past time (for example people being obsessed with the 60's and wishing they had lived then) are they trying to escape from or deny their present life?

    We all have friends that are always talking about the past and some seem so fixated on it that they rarely talk about what's happening now in their lives.

    Are people who are obsessed with the past possibly depressed about the present?


  • #5
    jupiterjack
    Registered Users Posts: 660 ✭✭✭jupiterjack


    no need to expand OP, i know where you are coming from and oh yes i do wish i was back in the 80s and i also get very nostalgic about simple everyday things that might bring about an association with times past. for me it has nothing to do with my current life situation as i am very optimistic about the present and indeed the future..


  • #6
    The Princess Bride
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,616 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    I agree with jupiterjack- and would think it's a similar scenario with most people.

    When my mother meets with her siblings,they discuss the present,the immediate future and then reminisce about their childhood.
    For her,it's the 40s/50s- for me and my friends,it's the 80s.
    Nothing obsessive/depressing about such discussions,just natural to remember those times which made you happy.

    My happiest memories are of my late teens and early 20s- because I only had my life to live,no responsibilities,nobody else to tend or worry about.
    Yes-have a good life now.

    But nothing in my life will ever compare to those amazing years.
    So I have no issues stepping back now and again,and remembering-
    and hope to do so for many a year.


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