Nostalgia Is A Waste Of Time Essay

A LESSON I LEARNED

Final version One of the most important lessons I have learned recently relates to a Spanish class I attended where we learned about nostalgia and how it affects an individual’s progress. In the experience, I realized that nostalgia is a waste of time because of a few reasons I will discuss in this paper. I learned that nostalgia is a heightened sentimental longing for the past. In the experience, I realized that whenever an individual consciously or unconsciously tolerates a thought related to the past or a history that was wither sad or happy they end up wasting significance time on an issue that might never change. My Spanish teacher always managed to teach valuable lessons I will forever keep with me. One day during class, my instructor started speaking to the class about how the feeling of nostalgia was a waste of time. He said that it was

I had never contradicted my teacher before. I told him that my opinion about nostalgia being a waste of time seemed very unfair to me. I thought; why would He be saying that remembering what once made me feel happy was a waste of time. isn’t it worth it to revive whatever made us feel good at the moment? like our childhood, the places we’ve been, the people we grew up with, that moment when we felt alive or excited, that moment when we fell in love maybe. Was all that a waste of time? we got into an agreement. I refused to understand the point, but then he added a fact that hit me like a truck, I immediately felt related to it. He said that most people tend to tolerate nostalgic thought often because they refused to accept their current life. The nostalgic feeling presents these individuals with happy memories that perhaps, allow them to forget their current situation. I understood his point because I pictured myself in that same situation. Unconsciously, that was my exact situation but I was unable to see it, or maybe I was just in