I like nostalgia, I like to feel like I miss a memory or feeling. I like to think that in some future I will feel what my mind remembers again. I like to feel nostalgic about scenarios that haven't even happened but are there, waiting to happen.
I am the most nostalgic person I know. It is sort of a curse at times because I often romanticize parts of my life that should not be, but there are highlights to it too. I love finding things that made me happy as a young kid especially. There was a kind of magic to the world that only existed in the early 2000's that is still somewhat accessible through indulging in nostalgia. I made a whole Pinterest board of memories from my childhood. I can guarantee that if you were a kid in 1994-2009, this board I created will encapsulate some really fun memories of your childhood (especially if you were a girl)
When I think about it, I think most of my nostalgia stems from being a child because I was unequivocally aware that I was filled with joy and trusting my present state. I was able to thrive in naivety because I was around people who had my best interest at heart. I didn't feel heartbreak simply because I was a child and had no purpose to date. I never felt true betrayal (even on the contrary of my second grade best friend randomly becoming my third grade bully...or attempted bully). My friends lived next door and on hot summer days we stayed outside from sun up til the street lights came on. Riding around the neighborhood on our bikes, buying candy from the corner store, then playing hopscotch with the bigger kids across the street. The nostalgia to truly feel free from the complexities that I face daily with interactions. I look back and my sisters and brothers were always around. I think about the days where we danced and sang songs. Never aware that that day was the last day where we are under the same roof, laughing and mocking but with so much love in our hearts that we don't care. We just feel good.
I just watched this movie and it was so cool and nostalgic at the same time. It is at times watching a movie within a movie and it is set in the 90s. It also touches on queer/ LGBTQ of do you accept yourself or do you hide who you are.