I did this about 2 years ago falling into and over indulging the nostalgia I had centered around someone I once knew. I fell into a deep depression and it affected my home life deeply. I had to face it head on and come to terms with that exact fact that my past and who I was 15 years ago doesn’t define me. I was a kid and if it weren’t for those lessons i learned then I wouldn’t have become there person I am today. So I finally let go
I was chatting with my cousin about nostalgia and mentioned how I enjoyed playing older games more than modern one and he said that was nostalgia talking and the games probably weren’t good… here’s the thing tho… those games I was playing I have never played before and were entirely new to me… meaning zero nostalgia, they were just old games being judged as good by me. I then brought up movies and painting and non digital games as a way to counter the idea of nostalgia. Is it nostalgia to enjoy anything that existed before you were born? Can’t certain things just be high quality regardless and of their flipping age? Alien 1&2, die hard, good the bad and the ugly, the Roman pantheon, cathedrals, soccer, chess, suits medieval of armor, the Mona Lisa and any iconic painting are all older than I am and are judged on their objective quality regardless of age so why can’t video games??? Honestly sick of the nostalgia excuse, it’s just another way of saying the past wasn’t as good and the current day is always better and believing nostalgia is the only reason something old is good is totally ignorant. Sorry for ranting I just hate the nostalgia excuse, judge stuff off it’s quality, good stuff is good regardless of age. I do agree with the fact that you should live in the moment tho, but if you don’t study the past you never learn the reasons why things happen so that you can identify similarities between the past and the now and course correct when stuff eventually goes wrong. Learn from the mistakes of others and also learn by doing. Traditions are answers and solutions to important questions we no longer ask.
Valid point. I believe we can definitely get nostalgic for things that we haven't experienced ourselves directly, like movies or music that was made before we were born. Quality definitely shouldn't be judged by its age 100%
I did this about 2 years ago falling into and over indulging the nostalgia I had centered around someone I once knew. I fell into a deep depression and it affected my home life deeply. I had to face it head on and come to terms with that exact fact that my past and who I was 15 years ago doesn’t define me. I was a kid and if it weren’t for those lessons i learned then I wouldn’t have become there person I am today. So I finally let go
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I was chatting with my cousin about nostalgia and mentioned how I enjoyed playing older games more than modern one and he said that was nostalgia talking and the games probably weren’t good… here’s the thing tho… those games I was playing I have never played before and were entirely new to me… meaning zero nostalgia, they were just old games being judged as good by me. I then brought up movies and painting and non digital games as a way to counter the idea of nostalgia. Is it nostalgia to enjoy anything that existed before you were born? Can’t certain things just be high quality regardless and of their flipping age? Alien 1&2, die hard, good the bad and the ugly, the Roman pantheon, cathedrals, soccer, chess, suits medieval of armor, the Mona Lisa and any iconic painting are all older than I am and are judged on their objective quality regardless of age so why can’t video games??? Honestly sick of the nostalgia excuse, it’s just another way of saying the past wasn’t as good and the current day is always better and believing nostalgia is the only reason something old is good is totally ignorant. Sorry for ranting I just hate the nostalgia excuse, judge stuff off it’s quality, good stuff is good regardless of age.
I do agree with the fact that you should live in the moment tho, but if you don’t study the past you never learn the reasons why things happen so that you can identify similarities between the past and the now and course correct when stuff eventually goes wrong. Learn from the mistakes of others and also learn by doing. Traditions are answers and solutions to important questions we no longer ask.
Valid point. I believe we can definitely get nostalgic for things that we haven't experienced ourselves directly, like movies or music that was made before we were born. Quality definitely shouldn't be judged by its age 100%
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