Anemoia Thread

[GENOSAD]

I'm actually kind of surprised that this thread hasn't been made already (excluding this thread on the music board), considering the broader themes of Agora Road. It's a simple subject: Post things that you never saw as a child, yet still give you an odd sense of nostalgia.

For me, it's the cities in Japan, specifically in the daytime.

I grew up in the suburbs, not too far from my city's downtown area, so I suppose the reason for getting this feeling is a result of only being somewhat familiar with urbana. The idea of a sprawling city existing in a biome-esque fashion had always existed in the back of my mind, but I'd never seen it with my own eyes until I was older. New York doesn't give me that nostalgic feeling. Chicago doesn't give me that nostalgic feeling, even though I had been there as a child. But Japan's cities? Just looking at a picture of one of them in the daytime is enough to flood my brain with that odd sense of joy. Hell, when I actually took a trip to Japan for one of my university's courses, it felt as though I had been there before a long time ago. If I believed in souls, I might have said that I lived there in a past life.

 

[Mеченый Яков]

I was born back in the 2002 and grew up in a remote village in the middle of nowhere, we only had really old technology and most people were ignorant about stuff that weren't something regional, our own way to know about the world was from really old ass tvs (that's before internet arrived here back in 2009).

I think the closest thing that makes me feel like home is stalker shadow of chernobyl, electricity cuts were common and winters were rainy, and gray and very cold for a tropical country, it made me feel awful.

Our national tv still brodcasted 90s and early 2000s shit back in the late 2000s too, so i had a ton of these old images and influences of the world, specially europe in the 2000s, the global context felt in a way more positive and peaceful, or at least semeed that way, the thing about nostalgia is that it usually cames from the ignorance of youth.

I don't usually suffer from anemoia, or nostalgia at all, because it makes me feel awful, i have good recall of certain moments, but i would never in my life want to go back to those miserable days in which i felt life was being stolen from me, sincerely, i love the present thousand times more, and i'll love the future even more, so i don't have much to say about this topic really.

 

[GENOSAD]

I don't usually suffer from anemoia, or nostalgia at all, because it makes me feel awful

I know what you mean, and I think I'm actually the same way. A lot of people think of nostalgia as a fond emotion, but I'm not the same way at all. For me, it's somber, melancholic, almost dreadful in a sense. Whether or not it's for the same reasons as you (having a bad childhood) might be a different story, but either way I am always confused by people's desire to chase after such a negative emotion.
(sorry if this post doesn't make sense, I just drank a bunch lolololol)

 

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I know what you mean, and I think I'm actually the same way. A lot of people think of nostalgia as a fond emotion, but I'm not the same way at all. For me, it's somber, melancholic, almost dreadful in a sense. Whether or not it's for the same reasons as you (having a bad childhood) might be a different story, but either way I am always confused by people's desire to chase after such a negative emotion.
(sorry if this post doesn't make sense, I just drank a bunch lolololol)

I had an awful childhood, i even made a thread about how i got desensitivized later in life thanks to it, but i get you friend, some people are obsessed with nostalgia because their present is miserable and want to find a cope or refugee in something that made them happy in the times they were "happy" and thus overrate past times so much, making them believe it was better than our present, when is just a biased perspective.

I'm not gonna pretend i'm not biased either tho, i'm, because i found nostalgia as something awful, is a feeling of dread, melancholy, of suffering and torment, is a reminder that you were weak and naive, i really hate that feeling, so i tend to simply see the past as something that happened, and not really something that is better, or worse as such, the past is the past, and is futile trying to going back to it, is dead for a reason, so what we have is to live our present and build our future with the time we have left, or at least that's how i see it.