Pleasure of my Inner Nostalgic
In fact, it is generally regarded as an indication of psychological well-being. And that is no small thing. Nostalgia also provides insulation against existential angst. Revisiting moments in the past allows one to feel less trapped by the linear nature of time. It helps, too, with loneliness.
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People tend to long for moments with people they love. This longing provides a sense of closeness, even if physically those loved ones are far away. A study released this month in the journal Emotion found that nostalgia might have a physiological dimension after all. A group of psychologists at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, observed that participants were more likely to long for the past on cold days or in cold rooms.
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As they indulged in the feelings of yearning, their body temperatures rose. These findings suggest nostalgia might have held an evolutionary advantage. It imprints itself on our brains when our personalities are still forming. It mingles with our memory functions and defines our sense of pleasure.
It restores a sense of wholeness to even the most fractured souls. But its effect may also account for something else — the fact that people tend to love throughout their lives the music and movies and books and television they loved as kids and teenagers.
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That's another way of saying there might be a neurological reason baby boomers can be so boring when they insist their music was so much better than anything that came before or after. They can't help it. I had something of a Henry moment with Gord Lewis, whom I was interviewing for a book about a band he formed in Hamilton, Ont.
I asked him about the inspiration for one song, Picture My Face ; I first heard it when I was 20 and became an instant, lifelong Teenage Head fan. I couldn't hear it enough, and it pulled me to the band's live shows as often as I could see them. I got that record when I was about 10, and played it so often my father threatened to throw my record player out the window if I didn't play something else.
But I couldn't help it: That song gave me such intense pleasure it was crack for my ears. So when I heard it reworked as an amped-up, bubblegum-pop, punk-rock Teenage Head tune, I was a goner. The child I had been was reactivated with a direct sonic jolt to the subliminal pleasure receptors.
The question of where taste comes from has been a mystery for as long as we've thought about such things. But now we're learning that it probably comes from the process whereby the brain formulates identity through the sensation of pleasure. No wonder that pop culture has such a powerful influence on generational identity: The things we fell so hard for as kids and teenagers — the word "crush" resonates here — reverberate throughout our lives, and the depth of that identification means we are drawn to others who share that formative intensity.
In the age of mass entertainment, generational affiliation is based, more than anything, on what we saw and heard before we even knew who we were. When a poster started appearing for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes , featuring a chimp on horseback defiantly hoisting a rifle over his head, any rational resistance I might have had for the movie — based on age, decades of professional movie-going and the reasonable presumption that all sequels, remakes and digital remasterings of the pop past should be approached cautiously — melted away.
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Because the image awoke my inner year-old — the kid who saw the original Planet of the Apes at exactly the right moment in time to be convinced that an armed gorilla on horseback was the hands-down, world-ending, coolest thing ever, and who carried that seared image in his cerebral cortex ever since. It makes sense for people operating in the flesh to cling to past glories.
He could only to chase after the winds in life—wisdom, wealth, warm memories—yet find them to be altogether profitless. He knew the book of Genesis.
He knew the Torah. That is why he lamented: Everything is vapor Ecclesiastes 1: No dissipated pleasures of the past can be reconstituted, canned, and served up on a whim. Where, then, is the true joy?
The Gospel-truth which dispels the mystique of nostalgia is this: Certainly those of us who have grown up in the church are accustomed to think somewhat along these lines. All will be right.
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But have we ever truly considered that when we meet Christ, our deepest, most radical joys will be utterly satiated? Certainly David experienced the joy and presence of God during his life on earth, but if this was all he had in view, one might accuse this verse of hyperbole. Rather, the promise of this verse is for our eternal state, where we who trust in Jesus Christ will be resurrected like Him. And for what reason?