What makes you feel nostalgic?

Life is a time capsule

Set up in increments of five or ten years

Sometimes moments

It takes so long to grow older

And almost no time at all

To realize you’re suddenly old

Nostalgia is memories

Stored as moments

Toys, people, smells, sounds, places

feelings

while in these places

Emotions felt by smelling cotton candy

Or suntan lotion

Or a certain brand of beer

Or hairspray you used when you were sixteen

A pen you used to write your first novel

The heat of a summer

The cold of a winter

If you close your eyes and you think of a time

or times

When you were happiest

Most creative

Most loved

Most loving

And present in the moment

The comfort of nostalgia will envelop you

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