Reminiscing with a mate about TV shows from long ago in no way stopped the reality of current global horrors. But it did make me appreciate the value of nostalgia as an emotional anchor.
How revisiting experiences through its lens can be a soft landing during times of stress and uncertainty.
It’s hardly revolutionary, but right now, I’m loving sharing collective memories as a way of fostering a sense of belongingyep, we’re all in this together. Of looking at a bunch of stuff from times when we survived awful things because it flags we’ll endure again. In layman’s terms, I’m madly using nostalgia as an antidote to feeling freaked out at DEFCON 4 levels. Against my usual MO of never looking back, I even joined a Facebook group called Memory Lane. Crystal ashtrays, striped Brashs bags, silver meat carving trays with spikes, people being “full as a goog”. Hobbytex. Creepy bottles of milk at school. Prince Matchabelli cologne. Moon Rocks. The Imperial Leather ad where pilot Simon is told Tahiti looks nice.in the den on Sunday nights.
Remember your mum making you wait an hour after lunch before you could get back in the pool? The bowls of rosette soaps and potpourri in Nan’s apricot bathroom? Terracotta angels, the smell of Nivea cream, your brother yelling “Geez, I’m taping” if you spoke when he was recording from the radio onto a cassette?and the belief jars of sauce like Chicken Tonight and Kan Tong’s sweet and sour were the height of suburban sophistication.
But right now, nostalgia is an okay makeshift balm. The idea of believing people can derive happiness and wisdom from the past while cultivating hope for the future.
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