Is nostalgia happy or sad for you?

[Wren]

A mixed bag for me, some sad, some happy

 

[deaver]

a mixed bag for me also some sad some maybe nice to remember. cant change any of it so not good to dwell on the past.

 

[Remy]

More toward sad for me. Of course.

 

[JustDave]

I have a hard time with nostalgia being sad, and in thinking about it, maybe it's because of semantics. To me the definition of nostalgia relies heavy on happy memories. If it's not a happy memory, I define it as just a bad memory, and nothing else. But if I redefine nostalgia to include sad thoughts, there is no warm fuzzy feeling from sad thoughts, and "warm fuzzy" is the base feeling of nostalgia, so I put it in the junk box, rather than the nostalgia box. Of course, I have bad memories. I am still human.

 

[Pepper]

Just the question makes me sad......

 

[timoc]

Instead of being sad about events from the past, I'm just glad I experienced those times and now smile.
Look out future, Tims acoming.

 

[Alligatorob]

How about you: when you get nostalgic, does it make you happy, or sad (or, I guess, both?)

Mostly happy, sometime a bit bittersweet. Most of my memories are good, try to forget the stuff that isn't. Sometimes I succeed.

 

[CallMeKate]

Just the question makes me sad......

I soooo deeply understand this, @Pepper .

 

[officerripley]

I think it's best not to be nostalgic, but keep looking forward and find new experiences.

I agree.

"Beware of nostalgia. Most of the time, it's a great big liar." ~~Jane T. Godfrey

 

[Right Now]

Mostly happy, sometime a bit bittersweet. Most of my memories are good, try to forget the stuff that isn't. Sometimes I succeed.

I am the same, but have to try and forget the not good moments. It does get easier as time passes. Makes me look to the really great years, and accept the bad ones. Just yesterday I saw this in the hallway of our Senior center, and had to snap a picture.....nostalgia.

 

[DebraMae]

It is mixed, both good and bad. Guess we are all that way.

 

[Alligatorob]

I saw this in the hallway of our Senior center, and had to snap a picture.....nostalgia.

Yep, does it work?

 

[RadishRose]

Usually sad

 

[Sassycakes]

It is 50,50 for me depending on what is happening. Thinking of my loved ones that are gone it is sad while spending time with my loved ones is happy.

 

[Marian]

Both for me

 

[Right Now]

Yep, does it work?

I doubt it, as the section of the center has been closed for over 10 years. It is just now been reopened for the Senior Center.

 

[LadyEmeraude]

For me it is both, sort of depends on my mood a bit and the level of memories and
about what~

I do though love looking back at times, and at happy memories, same though goes
for perhaps sad ones too, because it is just whom I am about nostalgia~

 

[dobielvr]

Both for me, as well.
Sometimes I'll watch reruns of the Johnny Carson show & it's sad to think that all the guests & Johnny are gone.
Especially when some of the guests died young.

Caught Burt Reynolds on an old Dick Cavett show the other night.
Really took me back in time.

He was talking about his centerfold he did for Cosmopolitan magazine....

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I'm almost 77, and half the guys in my high school class are gone, so when I see old pics, a lot of the people are no longer alive. But seeing things as they were, I think of them when they were alive, then it's not so sad. I gives me a warm feeling.