{"id":175095,"date":"2019-09-28T12:40:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T19:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=175095"},"modified":"2019-09-28T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T20:53:12","slug":"is-nostalgia-a-sign-youre-bored-of-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/28\/is-nostalgia-a-sign-youre-bored-of-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Desire your Past Self"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I often feel nostalgia for the past. But what if this is a sign of degeneration? Or perhaps when I long for my nostalgic past, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m bored of myself, or I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have much going on? Because if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153up and up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, why would you long for the past?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

What is nostalgia?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t discovered a good analysis of nostalgia (yet) so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll give my own attempt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thoughts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. We are afraid of change<\/strong>: The past is immutable. Thus we seek refuge in the past.<\/li>
  2. Do you think your past self is better than your present self<\/em>? Then perhaps the goal should be to surpass<\/a> your past self \u00e2\u20ac\u201d your self today is superior to your past self.<\/li>
  3. Do you got too much free time on your hands? Perhaps boredom (with our present life) is the spur to have us romanticize the past?<\/li>
  4. Perhaps the philosophy of Romanticism is a degenerate one \u00e2\u20ac\u201d much of our \u00e2\u20ac\u0153retro\u00e2\u20ac\u009d longing for the past might be a sign of weakness and sickness. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re better today than yesterday. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    The goal: surpass yourself. Perhaps on a daily or weekly basis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    You track your own personal progress. Crush your goals, and keep climbing higher!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    ERIC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      I often feel nostalgia for the past. But what if this is a sign of degeneration? Or perhaps when I long for my nostalgic past, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m bored of myself, or I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have much going on? Because if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153up and up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, why would you long for the past?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/cropped-B927375A-A55F-4AB2-B72B-38751FBFD78B.jpeg?fit=1152%2C648&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175095"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175120,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175095\/revisions\/175120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}