It’s strange but listening again to music from about 20 years ago, during a time when I was mostly sad and depressed, and where the musical choices reflected that, gives me a weird sense of nostalgia and longing for that time.
I know it’s not unusual for music to do that, that’s just run of the mill, it’s just odd that, it has me longing for a time and associated mood that, on the whole, I kind of didn’t really enjoy very much. The angsty tracks were what I listened to because I was so bummed out and dissatisfied.
Nostalgia more often than not feels melancholy to me, in general. I’m not a fan, so I try not to dwell on the past, but instead plan my future.
Sure, and interestingly, it’s right there in the name. Nostalgia is from Greek and could be crudely transliterated as something like “knowledge pain.”
