To ask what this feeling is?!

[gmwardy]

I sound completely crazy here but I can’t explain it

For some reason recently I’ve been missing the late 90’s early 00’s but to the point where if I think about it I’m in tears, this makes sense considering I was raised during these times.

However! I watched an archived video on YouTube from home movies etc from the 1980’s, and again, same reaction, so upset and the weirdest part is I wasn’t even born then, I was born in 1991

What is this feeling? Has anyone else experienced it? Or am I literally just overemotional

I mean there’s being nostalgic and there’s…this.

Nostalgia!

I feel similar when I think of the late 90s. That I was so much happier and it was a much simpler time. The reality of course, is that I had much less responsibilities and worries, and everything is seen through rose tinted glasses. I’m sure my parents had just as many worries and anxieties as I do now

Would you also scream in the Sistine Chapel?

...is your period due?

Seriously.

I get weepy over stuff when I'm due on.

I get this - I felt weepy watching the Crown even when there were parts set when I wasn’t even born. I think you can still get heavy nostalgia for times when you weren’t alive because they still would have been heavily referenced when you were growing up. For example, I was born in 1980 but if I watch anything from the 70s I can get floored by nostalgia because so many seventies programmes were still repeated on tv when I was growing up. The cultural influence was still strong. It made me realise how close some time periods really were. It hit harder since the pandemic so I think that has something to do with it.

I was born early 80s and I seem to have a real connection to those times and I love the music even though I was only a baby at the time.

We idealised the past and compare it to the current pandemic misogynist nightmare

I think around the time of having a Big Birthday can cause this kind of a feeling. I was very much like this a few years ago for about a 12mo period around my last milestone.

Look up the word “saudade”. That’s exactly what you’re talking about. It’s a feeling of longing, melancholy, desire, and nostalgia, a yearning for a happiness that’s gone, or perhaps never even existed.

Sounds like saudade to me, one of the most beautiful (and sad!) words I know!

I recently heard a song from my youth ( the 1980’s) that made me so sad I had to switch it off. I had such a strong sense of wasted my life or having missed opportunities I think. It was certainly more than nostalgia.

I just read the definition of “Saudade“ and it summed it up quite well for me.

I think a lot of people are. There’s been loads of threads recently about 90s/00s nostalgia. I think it’s partly because we’re collectively unhappy with current times due to the pandemic as well as the 90s/00s being back in fashion.

Hard to say- but I have this nostalgic feelings a specifically for 40's and very strong dislike feelings for 70's, although I'm 90's child.

I have been feeling a bit like this lately for the 80’s when I was at school and then university, tears welling up at the thought of that time, usually triggered by music or clips of films/TV programmes.

It is partly the pandemic I think that makes you nostalgic for a time that was much more enjoyable, but in my case our youngest child left home this weekend so very much the end of an era and I actually feel a bit more myself today, now he has actually gone.

I have this too about the 80’s especially! I recently revisited a city where I lived for 8 years in my late 20’s/early 30’s and just reminisced the entire time.. some of it was just sadness that it was all over. just turned 50 and can’t believe how much of my life has gone… 😔

I feel almost homesick for the 90’s. It was my era, I started secondary school in 1991 and I grew up with the 90’s.

Omggg I thought it was just me! I tell myself I'm having an early mid life crisis (I'm 36!). I've been rewatching some of my favourite 90/00 shows...currently on Dawson's Creek. I think I just miss how simple life was back then...my current life is intense with 2 little children

Although I don't cry, I just get a super wistful feeling

I have a strong sens eof connection to certain earlier times and sometimes feel weepy, in a strange combination of melacholy, nostalgia and reverie.

This colourised, restored video from 1924 left me in tears,

This link explores some of hte issues

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade

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