Nostalgia is a powerful drug. The neighborhood that once was, the restaurant that got boarded up, that TV show you used to spend hours and hours watching in your youth. Spending time revisiting a place, a moment, a feeling, is always going to be more enjoyable than living in the moment.
There are more responsibilities, more sacrifices, more complications. And that simplicity, that grasping for a time where things were simple and made more sense is really an illusion, a mirage in time. That’s because it’s gone, and while those times may have been great and may have made you feel a certain way, it’s better to focus on creating new moments, moments that will create their own nostalgia.