Saturday, April 14, 2012

Nostalgia

Some people wished they lived their life in a different time. Life would have been nice way before my time, but without the war. I can't put a finger on which decade would I would love to live in. Would I have been one of those women who wore black dresses and stockings, lovely curls and smoking cigarettes? Though despite the allure of nostalgia, it is better to accept the present for what it is.

“Nostalgia is denial - denial of the painful present… the name for this denial is golden age thinking - the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one ones living in - its a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present.”