Honestly I'm feeling super nostalgic about senior year second semester highschool. I have songs that go with it to that bring me back. So sappy and dramatic but hey it is what it is.
What about you?
Feb '16
Feb '16
I'm feeling nostalgic for my semester abroad in Japan (3 years ago). I miss all my friends there and my host family TT^TT I also miss the country. The trains, the food, the music, the sounds. I miss it all.
As a child, I used to spend pretty much every day playing in the littlethicket behind my house. I could lose HOURS in there, climbing trees, pretending dragons lived in the hole in the ground I imagined was a cave, constructing elaborate imaginary worlds, etc., etc.
We've moved since, but we still live in the same village, so every time I pass by that little collection of trees (which is still there 20 years later!), I get a moment of nostalgia.
It seems much smaller now, but only because I'm taller.
See also: the pond where I used to catch frogs, the abandoned open air chalk mine where I used to catch salamanders, and my old elementary school.
... The benefit of living in the same town you were born with is that you are rarely more than 5 minutes away from your childhood.
interesting topic from a writing point of view.
personally I try not to think about the past, in all honesty it's been one train wreck after another since I was five, (and i turn 45 next month) the only good I got out of it is all the stuff that has fueled my writing.
I have come to see that music and memory have a powerful connection, songs can bring back instantly things you never wanted to remember
childhood. back then, i felt like everyone loved me and i was destined to be a protagonist. not hard to see why suddenly realizing that, no, you're not at the centre of everyone's universe, might be pretty upsetting. and so characters displaying deep bonds and cherishing each other makes me cry.
wait that's not nostalgia.
Lion King makes me nostalgic since i watched the shit out of it. going to the neighbourhood of my first home.
i get nostalgic about most things, tbh. every period of my life. looking at my old drawings makes me nostalgic for my virtual pet days. neopets is where my legend began, yo. i was way productive but at the same time i remember not getting done as much as i wanted even then.
My kindergarten years. Especially spending my time at grandmother's house after school with my cousins while waiting for parents to pick us up. It was a time when everyone come together and it's kinda sad that we don't do it that often nowadays, even during festivities.
Oh man I've got a baaaad case of 90s nostalgia. It slowly started when retro became a trend again last year. All my favorite bands started doing this 90s concept for their albums and had square sized music videos (they're still doing it actually). Then there was that 'true 90s kid' thing on tumblr and it started becoming an aesthetic thing. I've also been watching old cartoons like daria, south park and ppg. This year my nostalgia hit really hard and ever since January I've had this weird urge to live in a suburb and go on a summer road trip.
It doesn't feel like my regular sense of nostalgia. I feel like I'm living what I like to call the 'neo 90s' since 90s and early 2000s are so relevant today. The fashion is retro, my old shows are getting reboots, the old bands I was into are making comebacks and there's a whole internet subculture for retro things.
I'll be 21 this month and I feel like I did in grade school haha. It somewhat feels like I've come full circle in life. Honestly I wouldn't mind staying like this.
I don't have nostalgia over childhood memories (mostly because I can't remember half of them) but I'm more recently listening to bad 90's-00's songs. The fact that there are games and shows which recreate nostalgia now doesn't help either.
I'm nostalgic for my early college years. For old episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to be new again. Josta soda. My family trip to England. Last year at the San Diego Comic Con. Its a varied list.
Honestly that's kind of a hard thing to pinpoint, I miss being carefree as a teenager in that when I'd come home from school all I'd do is just get on my favourite MMOs and play with my gaggles of online friends and not give a single fuck. But those were also some really really bad times too when I left that comfort zone. Being in college was also nice because it was the first time I was in an environment where I felt like I fit in.
If I had to pick between HS and college, I'm probably most nostalgic of my teenage years playing all those MMOs with friends that have long past, because I don't have friends in real life (ok, well very few). It makes me sad that friends come and go but I'm not someone who is good at keeping friends either. Oh well.
For some reason my first comic I have ever written feels the most nostalgic and the early 2000s. The early 2000s I was just getting into anime and read my first manga in 2004. My first comic as cliched the plot and story was it stills feels very nostalgic like there is something magical about it.
I think the most nostalgic part of my life was 6th grade, back in the late 90s. I discovered the concept of making my own characters and creating back stories for them. I wasn't quite on to the idea of making comics yet, but that's where I got my artistic start at least!
I feel nostalgic for a variety of things, but most of the time it's little snatches of time, little memories that come up one at a time. Sometimes I'll hear a song that really takes me back, other times it'll be the look of a movie or even a comic -- comics have always been extremely important in my life.
Sometimes even just the look of a movie, or its firmly-dated cinematography, fashion, hairstyles, and more will take me right back to a certain period of my life. Of course, over the years one builds up the pleasant times and tends to gloss over the less pleasant ones, but it's still nice sometimes to luxuriate in the idea of what can be remembered.
Some films, too, have a special place in my heart. I remember I used to try and make "movie night" special for myself by drawing a movie poster and scheduling a time to start, getting ready, preparing a snack, everything...I'd turn off the lights and just watch the movie, with nothing else to distract me. I did that as late as early high school, and I always used to love those nights. They were so much fun and something to look forward to.
Of course, some things have been affected by negative experiences or bad people I knew, and unfortunately I can't watch some things with the same feeling anymore. But that goes with the territory I guess.
I'm probably most nostalgic about my childhood. I hated my teenage years, I never want to go through that again. I'll spare you guys the details but my teenage years from when I was 12-17 were absolutely the worst. I guess I was made stronger because of all that happened? But definitely something I don't want to go through again.
I would say to be precise, I'm most nostalgic about being 8 years old again. I was just myself, I wasn't into dating (yet), didn't think past the moment, spent most of my time reading/drawing/writing outside and would entertain myself on the farm. The farm I grew up on is supposed to be sold soon :c but whenever I go back I get overwhelmed by the animals I used to play with, the lofts I used to sleep in, and haystacks I would lay and chew on (alphalpha is the best btw), the smell of the farm, and fishing with my dad.. There was also these awesome plums, pear, and cherry trees and I ate from them every summer.
Also I was 8 years old in the 90s and we had the best TV shows and games that are now iconic in modern society. Disney Afternoon, Nicktoons, Nick at Nite--these were my life!
