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Nostalgia and obsession with the past

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I live in the past. I fear the responsibilities that adult life brings; I endure bittersweet nostalgia for my childhood and schooldays, when things were safe, predictable, structured, choice was limited and my anxieties were safely contained. My past seems like a golden age, a perfect time, like a perpetual summer.

I am immature, emotionally, that is. I don't feel my age, and I am anxious nearly all the time. It is because of my anxiety that I yearn for a simpler time.

Are there others who are trapped in the past?

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  • Definitely, I'm really dealing with this right now. Personally, I'm not really nostalgic for school but College felt like the perfect time for me when I wasn't too young and old. 

    Really can't imagine being happier again as I was back then, and it hurts so bad. I had the best set of friends back then which I really can't imagine having as good as again. I also relate to feeling younger than I am because it feels like people change but I haven't. My personality is still the same as it was back then, and it crushes me because people move on.

    I hate being an adult now, there's no fun at all. I feel more awkward than ever now because it doesn't feel like I was made to be independent. Making friends is harder than ever now, there's so much awkwardness and energy trying to befriend people, I want new friends but it's exhausting. How can you make new friends when life is this unsocial is beyond me, 

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  • Definitely, I'm really dealing with this right now. Personally, I'm not really nostalgic for school but College felt like the perfect time for me when I wasn't too young and old. 

    Really can't imagine being happier again as I was back then, and it hurts so bad. I had the best set of friends back then which I really can't imagine having as good as again. I also relate to feeling younger than I am because it feels like people change but I haven't. My personality is still the same as it was back then, and it crushes me because people move on.

    I hate being an adult now, there's no fun at all. I feel more awkward than ever now because it doesn't feel like I was made to be independent. Making friends is harder than ever now, there's so much awkwardness and energy trying to befriend people, I want new friends but it's exhausting. How can you make new friends when life is this unsocial is beyond me, 

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