We Need More Cowbells: How Nostalgia Keeps Us in the Present

<p>Imagine forgetting John Lennon.</p><br><p>It isn’t hard to do when collective memory fades.&nbsp;</p><p>We remember things because they have meaning for us and we forget things because other things become more important.</p><p>Seeing people and hearing songs that aren’t part of our day-to-day conversation brings with it a sense of nostalgia, a longing for the past, and a remembrance of what had been.&nbsp;And in that longing and in those memories, we form a connection to what had been things or people who once mattered to us and then, the realization of all that has been lost.&nbsp;</p><br><p>Is it that realization that makes us lonely, or does the loneliness come when we remember what was once real.&nbsp;</p><p>How does nostalgia become a way for us to forget our loneliness?</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>