why would a person feel a deep sadness when faced with 50's 60's 70's images or video? I'm talking about a feeling of... something lost. Is there anyone else who sees these things and feels something similar? It's worth noting I was born in 79', so I'm not even from that era.

Everyone feels that way sometimes…looking back on the past brings up memories…good times, or before a friend or loved one died…I don’t think it’s sadness I thinks it just a longing for times that have long since passed

I don't know about specific sadness, but I'm heavy on nostalgia. I like looking at stuff from the past and remembering "the good old days" when life was simpler and easier, but I think thats typical of anybody over the age of 21 and realizing that they are (or should) be becoming a responsible adult. And plus a lot of new stuff sucks.

"the good old days" when life was simpler and easier,

I thinks it just a longing for times that have long since passed

i wouldnt have said it any different. whats most interesting is that we seem to take the word of older people, or what we hear about those times.

why were they the "times", and what made them "simpler and easier".
Watch the movie Stand By Me, or maybe Back to the Future, and you get the idea that people were more naive... ( i dont spell the best, sorry:grinyes:) maybe more ignorant to the "bigger picture".

maybe I just wish that I was more naive... n-eye-eve... ;). Theres a cool couple lines from this guy Narles Barkley or something, and in the song he says something like...

"when i was out there, i was out of touch, but it wasnt because i didnt know enough, i was cuz i knew too much" ....i think thats so possible, and quite possibly the reason that i to sometimes wish for a more simple way of living/thinking...

anyways, i've gone on enough... i posted this a few days ago, so im glad someone replied because I was feeling a little crazy:licka:.. haha... but i suppose this subject is in the right place... this is philisophical, and it's through these very questions that we gotten to wear we are.. well, good-night.

It's easy to become nostalgic about the past, especially those pics or movies etc specifically intended to generate nostalgia.

There was lots to hate about the 50's and 60's, including a polio epidemic, widespead pollution, racial segregation, the Cold War and (allegedly) imminent Soviet nuclear attack, the Korean war, Suez crisis, Cuba (et al.), Vietnam, and, most of all, lousy handling cars that got terrible mileage.

It's odd how those 'nostalgia' pics and movies rarely address these issues.

Theres a cool couple lines from this guy Narles Barkley or something, and in the song he says something like...

"when i was out there, i was out of touch, but it wasnt because i didnt know enough, i was cuz i knew too much"
Gnarls Barlkey - Crazy

Now the song is stuck in my head :runaround:

I think being nostalgic may have a lot to do with the lack of responsibility and experience you have in your younger days. As you grow older, the more responsibilities you'll likely have and the less time you'll have to stop and appreciate the good things in life.

When I was 10, my day consisted of waking up at 8, eating breakfast while watching cartoons, going to school for 8 hours, then I had pretty much the rest of the day to do as I pleased. But when you have to get up, make your kids beakfast, take them to school, work for 8 hours, pick up the kids, make them dinner, bargain with the guy that comes to shut off your water cause you forgot to send the check, clean up the mess in the hallway, etc you rarely get a chance to sit back and apprecate the good stuff in your life.

Thats why I try to appreciate the good stuff going on in my life right now since I just graduated college and haven't started working yet... even though a major point of stress in my life is my lack of employment. But in the mean time, I post on af, I listen to my favorite music, I watch Wheel of Fortune (best game how on tv :grinyes: ) and hopefully as I grow older I'll be able to appreciate the present so I won't have to be nostalgic about the past.

It's easy to become nostalgic about the past, especially those pics or movies etc specifically intended to generate nostalgia.

There was lots to hate about the 50's and 60's, including a polio epidemic, widespead pollution, racial segregation, the Cold War and (allegedly) imminent Soviet nuclear attack, the Korean war, Suez crisis, Cuba (et al.), Vietnam, and, most of all, lousy handling cars that got terrible mileage.

It's odd how those 'nostalgia' pics and movies rarely address these issues.

That's pretty interesting. In a small town in Ontario a few years ago many people where struck down when the water supply become contaminated with e-coli... many Canadians are fed up with Canadian troops in afganistan... I and many others have to pay to keep our 4 and 6 cylinder vehicals emmisions standards compliant, while no-purpose hummers and F-350 turbo diesels are flying off the lots... In the province of Ontario, Canada, each individual faith is now requewsting government funded schools, rather than have ONE school system void of religion that only provides principal educatiuonal needs...

It's the same stuff 30 years later. Believe me, I do sometimes think to myself... 'it wouldnt matter what era your in if your nature is the same'. Perhaps if i was in the 50's I would be dreaming of the 20's and 30's, longing for that ragtime...(chuckle)... I suppose the feeling is common.

I think being nostalgic may have a lot to do with the lack of responsibility and experience you have in your younger days.

sounds like a likely origin to me...