Nostalgia

n. Staying up late and having an enjoyable time with friends.... more

v. Taking a break to enjoy coffee, pastries, and conversation with others.... more

n. Homesickness for a place you can't return to or that never existed.... more

n. Forgetting directions right after hearing them.... more

n. A deep longing for something lost or unattainable.... more

n. Hesitating when introducing someone because you've forgotten their name.... more

n. The point in your mid-twenties when accountability for your own station in life sets in.... more

n. A long-forgotten mistake from your past that could reappear at any time and rip your life apart.... more

n. The feeling of loss for not meeting someone before their death, leading to an attempt to know them through stories and memories.... more

adj. Feeling wistful upon encountering a past love and realizing the changed significance of familiar gestures.... more

adj. Frustrated that you can't force yourself to remember something, even though it's right on the tip of your tongue.... more

n. The awareness that you are not at home in the wilderness.... more

adj. The wish for the modern world to feel as epic as old stories and folktales.... more

n. The bittersweet awareness that all things must end.... more

n. The eeriness of places left behind.... more

n. An unassuming feature of our daily lives that will eventually seem bizarre in the future.... more

n. A pang of shame from an embarrassing adolescent memory.... more

n. The half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago.... more

n. A state of confusion when your internal sense of time does not align with the calendar.... more

n. The awareness that someone you've known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life.... more

n. The sense that your life doesn't fit into a story.... more

n. A momentary trance of emotional clarity.... more

n. The disillusionment of revisiting a pop-culture touchstone of your youth and finding that it hasn't aged well at all.... more

n. The desire to capture a fleeting experience.... more

n. A feature of modern civilization that strikes you as absurd and grotesque.... more

n. The anxiety of being an individual.... more

n. Nostalgia for a time you never experienced.... more

n. A painful memory that is now remembered fondly due to the pride, camaraderie, or storytelling it brought.... more

n. The hidden vulnerability of others.... more

n. The brilliant artistry hidden all around you.... more

n. The fear that you've lived an ordinary life.... more

n. The bittersweetness of finally learning the outcomes of events in the future but being unable to inform your past self.... more

n. A sense memory drained of emotion due to excessive contemplation.... more

n. Vivid memories of a certain experience that may be disputed by others, leading to a reevaluation of one's worldview.... more

n. The sadness of forgetting sense memories of the departed.... more

n. The ambiguous intensity of eye contact.... more

n. The desire to see your memories in advance.... more

n. The feeling of being stuck on Earth.... more

n. The awareness that the present moment will eventually turn into a memory.... more

n. The art of dwelling on the past.... more

n. The scattering of memories that your brain is actively forgetting.... more

n. A random image from your distant past that leaps back into your attention.... more

n. An ill-fated attempt to reenact a beloved memory years later.... more

n. The feeling of returning from a trip and quickly forgetting the experience.... more

n. The awareness that seemingly unremarkable experiences may have a profound impact on others.... more

n. The sadness of being unable to convey a powerful memory to those who were not present.... more

n. A pleasant nostalgic yearning.... more