Do you feel nostalgic when you look at your childhood pictures?

Answer 1

definitely. you suddenly miss those days and you crave for it because usually when you're older...you have more responsibility and more stress so you wish you could just go back to your childhood and be carefree and just have fun.


Everytime I look at my childhood pictures I wish I could go back to my hometown and the old apartment i use to live and even if was small because there were so many memories in there that i'll never forget.

Answer 2

Yes, I do, despite the fact that my childhood was filled with problems, I had very supportive parents. They could not give me hardly any material things, other then a roof over my head and food to eat and the other things that would be considered luxuries to someone living in poverty, but they fostered character and a way of looking at the world that has proven far more invaluable, although I still wish I were a little more like my father in some ways, you can't have everything! You can only do the best you can at the time and learn to do better next time, and hope there is a next time.

Answer 3

Yes I do because I long for the simpler times. I also lost my dad at a young age and I treasure and cry when I see him in the pictures with me. I've also since lost my oldest sibling and I wish I'd have been better to him when we were younger. How can anyone not look at pictures and be nostalgic. Both good & bad memories.

Answer 4

I personally feel a little sad. Our family life was dysfunctional, and I have too good a memory.I was a little girl with sad eyes, an old soul. My own daughter never tires of looking at family albums, remembering how much she loved a shiny orange bathing suit, laughing at herself looking like a a little fat Buddha in a bath towel, using a curling iron like a microphone, laughing at a skimpy yellow bikini we had to hide from her daddy. I think our childhood pictures are treasures, and remind us to love and embrace and even comfort our inner child.

Answer 5

The portuguese call it saudades, which translates to "a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for something or someone that one was fond of and which is lost." I get it too, recently. Everyone I grew up with is finishing uni and this is it, welcome to the world, enjoy your 9-5 life slaving at a mortgage (unless you're a musician, in which case continue to party). It's not stupid. Life gets slightly less awesome as you get older. The key thing is to repress the hell out of the memories and continue to enjoy the new types of awesome.

Answer 6

You bet. Those were the Reagon years. Life was perfect, all world war was at its end because walls were coming down, and we wore cool clothes because the seventies left us dying for brights in our colors of fashion.

I was born in the seventies. I was glad when the eighties came, we had good country music, remember K.T. Oslins "eighties ladies"... and Phil Collins was hot on the charts, Micheal Jackson was telling us to beat it, yeah beat it!.. sigh. AND socks! We didn't wear socks up to our knees anymore... you know the socks with the two stripes at the top(thats what they wore in the seventie..yuk!).

When I was a kid, I could ride horses all day, build a fort at dusk and be back up at the crack of down without one ache or pain. I could go, go, go, go all day. I didn't spend my days trying to figure out which combo of which vitamins is gonna revitalize me as when I was a kid. (i've tried 6 million combos-NON work!)

My friends when I was kid seemed like friends.. The girls and I like barbies and bikes and the guys were just guy friends... they were there for ya. You hung out and even though everybody picked on everybody, they still loved each other...

Now adays everything is goofy... so yeah sweetie, I get nostalgic when I look at pix.

I do beleive that 20 years from now I will feel nastalgic about today too:-) I am sure I will.

Answer 7

Nope. I am a realist. I know that life is in the here and now. My childhood is a part of who I am today, and I am very happy to live in the present. I may remember my childhood fondly, but to be nostalgic suggests that I would like to go back. And in doing that, I disrespect the person I am today.

Remebering is wonderful...it is why we have our capacity for memory. But being wistful is a waste of time. Focus on today and look toward tomorrow. The act of looking back requires you to stop. If you try to move forward while looking back, you will stumble...

Answer 8

I definitely do! The one thing that I am most grateful for towards my parents is the wonderful childhood they gave me - my father especially enjoyed parenting, taking me to crazy places like factories to show me how something really works or reading for hours on end or teaching me how to make something (which most fathers do not do with their daughters in my culture), and then the special two-hour long Sunday breakfasts my mom would prepare with Walt Disney movies as part of the ritual, the study sessions, the camping holidays and everything else that they gave me. When I look at the photos, I have so many wonderful things to remember!

Answer 9

*laughs* My childhood was odd. I spent all my time outside, with my little advice stand. I laugh when I see those pictures of me giving advice to total strangers, because 20 years later I'm doing the same thing!

Answer 10

Yes, i remember alot that happened as I look at the different ages I see in the pictures, and then sometimes I feel sadness afterwards. bettyk