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What is nostalgia?

Something that could be sparked up by the smell of a grill.

The smell from a grill could spark up nostalgia.

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Nostalgia - what is it?

This is the term used when you are longing to go home i.e you are severely homesick.

The effects of nostalgia affected the girl who was away from her house in Peru for more than twenty years.

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What does "nostalgia" mean?

The tugging feeling you get when you watch Harry's face as he receives a cake from Hagrid on his eleventh birthday.

The nostalgia felt when you have a marathon of movies you remember as a child

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Nostalgia - what does it mean?

"Nostalgia," comes from nostros (a return home) and algos (a painful condition). So in nostalgia we see a return home to a painful condition. Homesickness

We're seeing a nostalgia for the Western, and for everything the Western once stood for, ...

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Nostalgia - meaning

the feeling you get when you listen to the song "fireflies" by owl city, "american idiot" by green day and "how to save a life" by the fray

Peasant: that song "fireflies sucks"
Boss ass bitch: i will slap the living shit outta you, that song brings so much nostalgia

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Nostalgia - definition

A longing for the good old days, whether or not they were very good. Or:

A tendency to think that if you were twenty+ years younger, you would be happy -- as if you actually had been happy when you really were twenty+ years younger.

Teacher: "Back in the 80s, I ruined a bunch of blazers by rolling up the sleeves like Don....."

Student: "Get your pillow, Mr Nostalgia rides again."

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Nostalgia - slang

An endless cycle of longing for the past.

Here is a story about nostalgia.

Once upon a time, a man was born in 1947. His childhood in the 50s wasn't that good, but when he grew older, he started to hate anything past December 31 1959. Several years later, he gave birth th a child in 1967, who became nostalgic for the 70s, and said anything past December 31 1979 was awful, while his father hated the 70s because of nostalgia. The son later fathered a son born in 1987 with childhood in the 90s. The old man's grandon later said anything past December 31 1999 was crap.

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Nostalgia

reminiscent of a time when the world ceased to move around you because you had it all.

nostalgia: "remember when we sat on the roof for hours just to listen to the wind blow and watch the stars?"

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Nostalgia

A remembrance of something that was important to you, something that you loved, something you heard as a infant or a toddler, something that is unforgettable.

Me growing up hearing the Final Fantasy VII soundtrack, now thats nostalgia to me.

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Nostalgia

The feeling of sadness mixed with tints of happiness. The best and most obscure state of agony you can every ask for. Nostalgia hides within the tears you shed for what you've lost that was once here but has faded away piece by piece. Nostalgia can be how your best friend tells you your childhood has expired. It first is invisible, then slowly it becomes translucent. As time passes by followed by the tears you shed for those people and things you once had but never cherished, nostalgia shows itself, it's reflection imprinted on your tears.

When you realise that what you used to love has become nothing but a mere memory. You will never look at a teddy bear the same way you used to. You will no longer go to sleep with your mother's smoochy kisses on your forehead, having an array of soft toys lying on your bed. You will no longer watch your so called "childish" cartoons. And this feeling, when all these thoughts hit you, is the one and only, 'Nostalgia'. This word nostalgia is not merely a word. It is colorful and colourless at the same time. It is empty and wholesome at the same time. Nostalgia is like a colouring book. Once all filled in, then fading away as the marker's colours dry out.

Nostalgia itself is vaguer than any word you'd ever be in contact with. Even the longest, most hard to spell words in the dictionary is less ambiguous than the simple word 'Nostalgia'. Nostalgia hurts more than needles but makes you light up a warm smile between the pain it gifts you with.

Rain was my symbol of nostalgia. When I feel, hear, touch and perceive rain, I automatically and uncontrollably shed tears. These tears were not for myself, not for any other person but my past self, the memories I've made that will never return. I was back in first grade, sitting at the bus. The memories could not have been more blurry but it still remains so clear in my heart as if it had just been etched onto it. I was sitting at the sixth row, and it was raining. I led my head onto the windowsill and raced the water droplets. It meant more than one day at the school bus for me. It wasn't just a simple memory, because this very memory unlocked a chamber in my heart. It made me realise I was no longer the first grader sleeping with a teddy bear everyday anymore. I knew suddenly that I would never feel what I felt before. That feeling of hopelessness that floats inside my body, around my gut travelling my digestive system.

There is no need for examples, for there is only the real feeling of nostalgia when you feel it. Nostalgia cannot be seen, shown, or heard. It can only be perceived. You feel it, you know it.

Remember, you only know you felt it when your can feel yourself hurt, crying and smiling at the same time. By that time, you'll know. Trust me.

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