Kiwi Farms

Without power leveling too much, what is the peak nostalgic period of your life?

For me it's 2005-2007, I was 15-18, those were the happiest days of my life.

You might think that's a little odd because many people pick their childhoods and while I had for the most part a good childhood and there's plenty of happy memories from back then, it wasn't perfect, there's a lot of bad memories like for one example the loss of my grandfather and later grandmother when I was 8 and 10.

There's also just the fact that well, my childhood was a long time ago by this point, the memories feel somewhat faded, as sad as that is, my memories of my mid teens are much clear and sharper, sometimes they feel like only yesterday.

But I just found something magical about being on the cusp of adulthood, of having so much potential, of being older but still having a childlike sense of excitement and fresh way of looking at the world, I also just really liked where the culture was at back then, people had much better attitudes, they would look at you like you were insane if you spouted today's Woke horseshit, despite the worries of back then, the post 9/11, Iraq war era and all that jazz, I felt like it was an exciting time where there was a lot of potential for the future.

But then there was a sharp decline after I turned 18 and while I've had good times since, nothing has ever come close to the magical feeling everything had to me in 2005-2007, it's kind of hard to explain really.

Without power leveling too much about why those were good years for me personally, I'll just say that among other things 2004 was kind of a terrible year for me, I went through some real hardships that year, but then 2005 was a huge improvement, it just felt like such a breath of fresh air and I wouldn't start to really face new challenges until 2008.

It's hard to deal with the fact that all of those years were well over a decade ago now, it's hard to deal with the possibility I'll never be that happy again (but I always hold out hope I will be), but I'm glad that when times are tough I have my happy memories to reflect back on to raise my spirits.