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How strong is nostalgia for you? (pg. 2)
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| Intellekshual |
Wallowing: indulge in an unrestrained way in (something that creates a pleasurable sensation).
It's not a negative thing. :) |
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| Joss Weatherby |
Except it is almost exclusively used in a negative context and applies a negative connotation. Wallowing in despair, wallowing in depression.
You rarely hear someone say "Oh I was wallowing in happiness". |
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| Jon_Snow |
| Unfortunately nou is right. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Nou doesn't use soap when he washes; he wallows in his own filth. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Except it is almost exclusively used in a negative context and applies a negative connotation. Wallowing in despair, wallowing in depression.
You rarely hear someone say "Oh I was wallowing in happiness". |
What's implied by those phrases is that you're stuck in something that you, yourself created. Someone who is wallowing in despair is not only afflicted by whatever tragedy, but they have allowed it to consume them, even if that "comfort" in submission is detrimental to their health. Nostalgia absolutely works this way as an effect of our memory (an often unreliable faculty), because it's ultimately nothing more than a self-indulgent gesture or even endeavor that acts as a trap of progress to some people.
Healthy or not, I think it's a part of the human experience, thoroughly enabled by the very fact that we typically have decades on end to experience life and its many losses. Nostalgia is almost a defense mechanism of sorts, an inherently languorous exercise in solipsism.
It can absolutely be said that one does not "wallow in happiness", but nostalgia is absolutely not the same thing as happiness, even if it can elicit that vagary. |
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| Jon_Snow |
| If you did enough implied mental gymnastics you could have nostalgia for the future. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| Bang! Pow!! I would NOT want to be Hal right now! |
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| Jon_Snow |
| Hey I'm giving you an A for effort and that "Don't mess with a librarian" T-shirt you are wearing is pretty bad ass. |
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| enydo |
| I'm nostalgic for nothing. |
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| enydo |
| I am actually nostalgic for SYSTEM-J epic house sets. |
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| enydo |
Ugh, yeah I lied actually, everything on this too:
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