Is anybody doing it recently? I've been feeling depressed for the last six months and just a couple hours ago I was digging through some stuff and found an old tablet where I had synched and saved some old photos, notes, even memes and edgy stuff. And well the nostalgia hit me very hard, seeing my high school friends, my crush, my head full of hair and my lean body, those autistic glasses and jeans... it pains me to see those were the last moments where I felt happy, I can't believe I'm smiling in those pictures, that I'm surrounded by people and friends. I wish I could go back so bad. I know I haven't lived a good life but those were the best years in my entire life and I'm sure there will never be anything like it.How do I stop thinking about the past? how do I let all those memories go? they're good memories, but I keep clinging at them and I feel like I'm going insane, I should've forgotten about them years ago and they still come back every time I feel like this, even in my dreams I still think about some of those people, specially my high school crush which was also my best friend, seems like I never got over her. Any advice? I wish I could forget it all, it's painful to compare the current me against the old me.
Nostalgia is a drug that distracts us from the present.Instead of looking back and thinking>wow look how good things were back then compared to nowfocus on making right now better.Start exercising, eat healthy food, fast, do nofap, pursue some sort of creative outlet like woodworking or making music, believe in God, go hiking.Your capacity for joy is HIGHER now, but not as freely given to you. If you take the right steps, you'll be glad those old days are gone because you feel so much better now.
My school experience was awful from start to finish and I'm grateful it's over. I have no sense of nostalgia for any of it so I cannot help you. Thank you for reading my blog.
