Why Do We Feel Nostalgia?
Channel: Qwetzxl
Date: 2022-09-30

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In this video, I talk about nostalgia and add my own cynical touch :') 
I am very proud of this video, it's wayyy higher quality than my other videos, and I made it in less time, so expect to see more like this in the future and hopefully sooner :D

chapters:
0:00 - Warning
0:20 - Video Begins
2:45 - Cynical Turn
3:30 - Credits
3:45 - The point where you should subscribe

I make videos like this all the time (once a year), you might enjoy them if you watch other YouTubers like sunnyv2 or moon. I'm still learning to edit and I'm nowhere near professional, but I feel that I can edit my videos to a standard that you can enjoy.

script:
Nostalgia, a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past. But why? Why do people feel nostalgia? Let’s start with a better question, why do people feel emotions? According to Psychology expert, Kendra Cherry, emotions exist to help us take action, to help us survive, to strike and avoid danger, to make decisions, and to help understand others. But then how does nostalgia achieve any of those, nostalgia is simply a longing to be in a time that has past you, how does it help us to survive, or understand others, it is simply regret, a dislike for the current time, what might that remind you of? Depression, anxiety, and regret, all negative emotions, so then what does this specific category of emotions achieve? According to mentalhealthwellbeing.co.uk, negative emotions can help you: pay attention to detail, give you motivation to seek a mediator, encourages problem-solving, change negative behaviour, or motivate you to work hard, all of these belonging to their respective emotions. But nostalgia doesn’t help you notice details, because you are too busy thinking of the past, and it doesn’t motivate you, it only makes you feel hopeless, that life is too hard now, that you wish you could go back to simpler times, nostalgia doesn’t benefit people in any way, does it? Well, feeling hopeless, I decided to google it, maybe google could give me an answer, and it did, it showed me a result from the America Psychological Association, or APA for short, the result stated that “Nostalgia by motivating us to remember the past in our own life helps to unite us to that authentic self and remind us of who we have been and then compare that to who we feel we are today. That gives us a sense of who we want to be down the road in the future.”  But then why do we feel resentment when we feel nostalgic, if nostalgia serves to remind us of who we were and to help us see how we have improved ourselves, then why is it, that instead of being proud of who we are, we wish we were who we were in a past time, but why?  maybe it’s because life has failed us, with 800 people dying daily, in the US alone, and the numerous terrorist attacks, abortions being banned, corona, social media controlling our lives, and countless other tragedies, all of which, slowly making life meaningless, slowly turning the past into our only hope.

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