First, Merry Christmas to those who celebrate and Happy Holidays to those who have their own celebrations. 🙂
Second, things that make me nostalgic are anything that reminds me of my grandparents… movies from the 1940s and 1950s—music from the Rat Pack or Benny Goodman—stories told by anyone about WWII or the era’s history. I used to sit for hours and listen to stories my grandparents told me about when they were younger, and about how my grandfather’s father and mother fled a small town in Germany before Hitler bombed it. (There is nothing left of that town. No records or buildings. It’s as if it never existed.) I miss those days with my grandparents. My grandma told stories about her and my aunt growing up in a vast house they swore was haunted, and when I was about 7 or 8, we took a trip to Kansas City, where both my grandparents grew up, and we visited that house. That house was definitely haunted.
More nostalgia: The 1980s. I lived in the 1980s from the age of 10 to 18—the best years of my life. I grew up in Newport Beach, CA. I would go back there (at those ages) in a heartbeat. Every time I hear a song by Duran Duran, The Cure, Tears for Fears, or Depeche Mode, I remember moments from high school. If you weren’t there, you can’t possibly understand what it was like—the hair, the clothes, the music, the movies, the malls, the stores. Life was easy then. Life was extraordinary then.
These are the things I love and miss. Remembering and seeing and hearing about these things…all of them…make my heart smile.
What are your nostalgia triggers?
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