Longing for past suffering

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Longing for past suffering Anonymous 04/07/25 (Mon) 21:35:42 No.1614

When I used imageboards on a daily basis I was miserable. A completely ostricized teenager that spent his days in his room, woke up lonely and went to sleep lonely. Why do these sites make me nostalgic? I should want to forget those years, but I instead find a weird sense of comfort in visiting these places again. It's like my brain erased all the suffering and instead only remembers the brief comfort of anonymous iteractions on weird anime sites.

Anonymous 04/07/25 (Mon) 22:12:29 No.1615

You viewing those times as bad is the problem.

Anonymous 04/07/25 (Mon) 22:30:52 No.1617

I don't think it's necessarily contradictory - just because you were generally unhappy doesn't mean you can't look back fondly on the parts that were fun, or even just slightly less unhappy.

Anonymous 04/08/25 (Tue) 00:06:50 No.1620

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When revisiting things from my awful school days, I have a similar feeling. I take it as a great blessing. Every time I go to something I liked as a kid, I always expect nothing but bad memories and awful feelings, but none of that is there. I have a chance to start all over again, to truly love this thing that I was not capable of loving before. You, too, have a chance to start all over again, even if you feel tempted to yearn after your own awful teenage years.

Anonymous 04/08/25 (Tue) 08:19:32 No.1622

>>1614
suffering always looks slightly romantic when time has made a good enough distance from it. its partially because, though this is a tired trope (but remains true), hardships/suffering to kinda build character/grow u as a person. so ur brain is looking back on something fondly because it knows it has grown from it/learned lessons from it.
i dont think im articulating what i mean especially well but oh well.