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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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  • These comments about how old you look made me smile. They refused to serve me  in a pub last year because of my age...I was 38!.....Also on a train journey a couple of years ago a teenage boy thought my partner (who is 5 years younger than me) was my mum.... although there is a possibility that some people are very poor at guessing peolples age. I'm probably not so good at that myself. Wink

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  • These comments about how old you look made me smile. They refused to serve me  in a pub last year because of my age...I was 38!.....Also on a train journey a couple of years ago a teenage boy thought my partner (who is 5 years younger than me) was my mum.... although there is a possibility that some people are very poor at guessing peolples age. I'm probably not so good at that myself. Wink

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