Definition of nostalgia

1 :the state of being homesick :homesickness
2 :a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition; also :something that evokes nostalgia

Examples of nostalgia in a Sentence

To dwell even fitfully on the past, for James, was to risk crippling nostalgia; the past was the shadow side of will and therefore must be rejected. —Jackson Lears,  Nation,  26 Feb. 2007

My own feelings were that since I'd jettisoned employment, marriage, nostalgia and swampy regret, I was now rightfully a man aquiver with possibility and purpose … —Richard Ford,  Independence Day,  1995

… the script is written in advance, around the uplifting themes of our civic religion: reconciliation, patriotism, self-sacrifice, the bond of leader and little guy, nostalgia for what is inevitably called "a simpler time." —Katha Pollitt,  Nation,  22 May 1995

Nevertheless, if one understands the nostalgia for war which marked these years of his break with America, it still remains a nostalgia that is empyreal and histrionic. Only once in his career did MacArthur lead as small a body of men as a company—one somehow feels that the idea of MacArthur, even as a boy, in command of anything less than a division verges on the ludicrous … —William Styron,  "MacArthur," 8 Oct. 1964, in This Quiet Dust and Other Writings,  1982

A wave of nostalgia swept over me when I saw my childhood home.
He was filled with nostalgia for his college days.

Bringing up the past, to correct today, is a sickness of the mind.....

Live today, and give it your best.

Or suffer the consequences of nostalgia.........

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 09/25/17 at 09:14:07:


Slow down your need to reply to everything Jog before you digest it....
And can your tart little smart azz attitude.

Where did I say you can not, or should not, discern the past, with the hope of understanding the future, and choices it might bring?

Go read the definition again, if you need.
It is unhealthy to be mired, and thinking if only life could be as it was.

A case in point.
As I age, my body is experiencing the effects of it.
What use to be a bump, and then a bruise, can really slow me now....
Sure, I can be nostalgic for the indestructible body of a 20 year old, but I would never forfeit the knowledge, or life experiences, I have learned and enjoyed from having lived through all those years.

Now, if I let it get me down, wistfully thinking of the past, at how much better it would be, I would be wasting the moment, and any chance I have at living in it.....

Now, go put your f'n attitude up your own azz buddy.
Reflect on that a spell  

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 09/25/17 at 22:00:41:


Should read: bringing up the past in today's context, to correct the present.