nostalgia for an ideal past

Have you ever wondered the secret of what is called "nostalgia"? The secret of that feeling that haunts you when you visit your old home that has seen your childhood or your youth, that familiar smell, the reassurance you feel when you go to a place of the past, your old room, your family photos, your old personal belongings. Time has already passed but you belong to it with all your arms, Childhood time devoid of responsibilities and fears, rest and those warm days, when everything was good and everyone was happy! And wish you would regain that life even for a moment ... You are here in the case of "Nostalgia" ...

Nostalgia as a concept is "nostalgia for an ideal past," or an emotional state that we create within a certain framework, at certain times and places, or can be described as a process in which transient sentiments, happy moments of memory, and expulsion of all negative moments are retrieved. People feel nostalgia at least once a week

Experts say that "nostalgia" is a defense mechanism used by the mind to raise the mood and improve the psychological state, so it increases in cases of boredom or loneliness, especially the elderly, that is, when a person feels that his life has lost its value and has changed for the worse, the mind recalls the memories of the past good by its warmth And emotions, and give them the memories needed to deal with the current challenges, as they say that the past is "the food of the dead," The nostalgia is a psychological resource in which people come down to regain their lives and feel their value, It is a successful way to ward off depression, You feel that your miserable life was valuable "someday"

Simply ... we love nostalgia because it makes us in a "vague" way we feel better!

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