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Nostalgia is one of those emotions I thought I understood until the other day I was walking down the street and I got a whiff of fresh cut grass. For a split second I was thrown back into 2016 on a Tuesday where I had a travel soccer game. I could feel the polyester of my jersey. I could feel sun beaming down on my face. I could feel... My teammate yelling at me, being like, pass the ball, Zerky!
A split second and it was gone. I blinked, it was gone. But I felt it. It wasn't one of those things where I saw, you know, a Club Penguin or a Wepkins photo on an internet archive page and I was like, oh, you know. It was a memory. I triggered a memory that I didn't even... I knew I had, but I didn't know it weighed on me that much.
It's a similar feeling to when I see somebody in real life wear the Fila Stompers. The pinnacle of high school was every girl at my high school had Fila Stompers. These small things, these small memories... they make up nostalgia. And no matter what anyone's going to tell you, you cannot, you cannot describe it. You have to live through it. You have to live through it.
In a day and age where nostalgia is something that is now sold to us, it is something that is now romanticized, the truth is You had to be there. You had to be there. You had to be there. You had to be on the playground when you were trading silly bands with your class enemy because you wanted to get the one that looked like a Minecraft creeper.
You had to be there when you begged your parents to get you a Club Penguin subscription so you could have more than one Puffle. You had to be there when Brockhampton had a chokehold on your high school friend group, and every time you would go to a Brockhampton concert, you would make 10 to 20 friends automatically because you all liked the Saturation albums. You had to be there.
You had to be there. But I don't wanna be there anymore. I don't. That's the past. 2018 was 20 years ago. Feel old yet? Not really. But I don't wanna be there. Because I'm in 2025 and it's now. And yes, these emotions and these feelings are so tied to this period in time, but it was best served at that time. I can't relate to those emotions anymore because that isn't my reality.
That isn't our reality. We don't live that anymore. And I think that we forget the beauty of nostalgia is living through it. That's the beauty of nostalgia. It's not that, whoa, this is gonna be nostalgic. No, no, it's the emotions that you have tied to these things, these arbitrary things. Sometimes they're material, sometimes they're experiences, but these things, these events,
It's the way in which we individually reacted and interacted with these things that give us that nostalgia. The feeling that I get when I see someone wearing a Deadmau5 hoodie, which is like rare, that is like finding diamonds in early Minecraft. It is very rare, but when I do see it, I'm thrown into my childhood bedroom in a house that no longer I have access to, is long gone,
And I feel my fingertips hitting my keyboard, running around in my house that I built in Minecraft on a server with my friends, listening to Ghost and stuff. That is what I feel it. I feel the headphones sitting on my ears. And it's beautiful. It's beautiful. But that trigger is not the same for somebody else. Maybe the nostalgia somebody else gets from that hoodie...
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