How can we avoid "living for nostalgia"?

Question

I'm 19, but I relate most with stage seven. Can you tell me more about Erikson's theory of personality (specifically the later stages)?

Answer 1

I would like to know that too.

Answer 2

Living for the here-and-now. The pain of the present is many folded and pain is what enforces the pleasures of memory. This is far too complicated to solve in the here-and-now for me, time not sufficing in quantity. My advice briefly then is that you not avoid it but find purpose for it for the here-and-now. Time from the here-and-now extends in two directions: to the past and to the future. In the here-and-now balance one with other. How? Psychology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erick_Erickson

Stage One Oral-Sensory: from birth to one, trust vs. mistrust, feeding;

Stage Two Muscular-Anal: 1-3 years, autonomy vs.doubt, toilet training;

Stage Three Locomotor: 3-6 years, initiative vs.inadequacy, independence;

Stage Four Latency: 6-12 years, industry vs.inferiority, school;

Stage Five Adolescence: 12-18 years, identity vs.confusion, peer relationships;

Stage Six Young Adulthood: 18-40 years, intimacy vs.isolation, love relationships;

Stage Seven Middle Adulthood: 40-65 years, generativity vs.stagnation, parenting;

Stage Eight Maturity: 65 years until death, integrity vs.despair, acceptance of one's life.

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Answer 3

Don't get old.