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Nostalgia is not what it used to be -or is it?

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MawtheMerrier Sat 28-Jan-23 22:52:02

What is with all these backwards looking threads inviting us to share our “first” or “earliest” experiences?
Is it a sign of encroaching senility?
Eg “I remember when you could get a bar of chocolate and 5 Craven ‘A’, a fish supper and still have change from sixpence”
Or have I strayed into Mumsnet with the likes of
Were you pressured into giving up breastfeeding?
Morning sickness
Potty training
Your first film at the cinema
First day at school
Where you met your first love/DH (delete whichever is not applicable)
Products we used to use
Now Pocket Money and Saturday jobs
Childhood sweets
Biscuits/puddings /meals of our childhood
They say your life flashes before you when you die- is this in preparation for that?
It’s too much like sitting round reminiscing in the day room in the care home for me. Life is for living now not harking back to outside lavatories and clogs on cobbles shock yawn

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rafichagran Sun 29-Jan-23 12:37:18

Well said Nexus we are all different.

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Judy54 Sun 29-Jan-23 14:20:45

It is sometimes good to reminisce and look back at our younger days. I too enjoy these threads and find them fasciniating but each to their own!

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rockgran Sun 29-Jan-23 14:24:10

I love a trip down memory lane but I wouldn't want to live there!

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Granmarderby10 Sun 29-Jan-23 17:47:19

So…. A very current issue for me right here, right now is these pop up video thingies. Why have they suddenly started appearing and what are they going to do about them?
If they are to be a feature of this site then why are the topics so completely irrelevant to most of us and why are they muted.
Soon we will be getting all nostalgic for the way Gransnet usedto be😉

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MawtheMerrier Sun 29-Jan-23 18:29:34

nexus63

mawthemerrier, some people don't really have much to look forward to and memories of the past are what makes them smile. i am almost 60, i have lost a husband of 18 years and a partner of 18 years, i will live on my own for the rest of my life, i spend 90% of my life housebound due to illness, i am not sad about my life...it is what it is, i love my old music and remembering dancing with my husband to the song young girl as he was 18 years older than me, laughing with my partner at silly things, but i also look forward to seeing my son and his family and getting phone calls and facetime from other family members. my life is not over...it is just different to how i thought it would be, but sometimes the memories are what keeps you going.

Sincere condolences Nexus .
I too am widowed Paw died 5 years ago, we had been together since meeting in 1966 , marrying in 1970 ( I am quite a lot older than you at 75). I agree many of us have little to look forward to but for me the essential thing is to enjoy or appreciate or at least make the most we can of the present. We all of us have our memories- I don't dismiss them or all the pictures I treasure and I spend many happy moments and hours remembering the good times - those will never come back but there is nothing to be gained (for me) in dwelling too much in that past. My first lippy/film/record/favourite pop song- so what?
The past has played its part in forming the present let's not deny the importance it has in our future. Psychologists tell us it is important not to look too far into the future - that is often depressing, but take what pleasure we can from now and the short term future.

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