What is this feeling?

Question

This question is abstract. Even I have trouble understanding what I`m talking about. To start, I get this feeling from The Goonies, The Sandlot, and Honey, we Shrunk the Kids. They`re movies with a group of kids who have to overcome something or they`re different in some way. I also get this feeling from the song "Somewhere out There" and other songs with a hopeful, far-away lilt. This feeling is like longing but more. I get it from situations like in E.T where the boy is misunderstood and doesn`t fit in and feels like there is no one else like him. I will get this feeling from a girl who is "average" or "ugly" but still is pretty. A girl who doesn`t dress up or wear make up but is natural and kind of lives in a poor family. To add, this feeling presides in unfamiliar places that people don`t really think about like junkyards, trailor parks, and sewer systems beneath the city. It has to do with "dirty" places. This feeling is adventurous,"kiddish." It`s so hard to explain. What is it?

I`m getting some pretty good answers, but here are some more objects that give me this feeling: Pound Puppies, baseball cards, pretty much old-fashioned stuff that kids used to play with. Also the movie "All Dogs go to Heaven" I know that this feeling is mostly nostalgia, but it also includes something else I`m trying to define. Now I`m focusing more on the sewers or dark, "dirty" places like in crowded cities. Pollution, garbage, old, poor places. Messy environments where people just spur-of-the-moment hang out.

This feeling is a combination of nostalgia, adventurousness, longing, childish pleasure, and interest in dank locations like I have described. It always takes me back to my childhood and what happened in the past. What esle could it be along with nostalgia?

Answer 1

Nostalgia....the security of the past, the unknown of the future.
You have begun the journey of life......
Somewhere between right and wrong..good and evil..
contentment and discord.....life's journey, and may you always seek answers, question and accept...full speed ahead...thank you

Answer 2

This feeling is called nostalgia. Which means a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in ones life, to ones home or homeland, or to ones family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time.
It happens to everyone, even to people who say it never happens to them, it does. Sometimes we have an embedded memory that we can't quite think of. Our senses place a key part in this: sight, touch, smell, hear, taste. The next time you get this feeling try to remember when, where, or even how this could have happened to you.
You might want to keep a diary or journal. I know it might sound silly, but it will help you remember what might have happened in this situation.
Your might have seen these movies years ago, when you were little, and they had such a huge impact on you, that you think it might be an embedded memory.
My suggestion, write about it. You got a feeling, put it on paper. you never know you might actually have the next "Goonies" movie just waiting to be written.

Answer 3

It could be empathy, sympathy or most likely optimism. Cheering for the underdog gives us all a feeling of hope and that even someone disadvantaged can overcome life's problems and be successful. Nurture this feeling, it will serve you well in life, without hope we are doomed. Too many of us grow up and feel that we are cast into a certain slot because of our education, our color, our looks, our lack of certain talents etc. NEVER allow others to define who you are, reach down inside to the very bottom of your being and know that you can achieve any goal. All the examples you gave are of people overcoming insurmountable odds and succeeding.

Answer 4

Wow, I'm relating to this. I remember how I used to take walks in the woods after school because life at school and at home left me unsatisfied in certain ways.

It's something about the world's expectations about how people and their property should look all the time, and how others can be so happily preoccupied with that stuff as opposed to myself...

Answer 5

It sounds like the feeling of not growing up. Going through sorts of loops and bounds of being a teenager, and on top of that you have some insecurity issues, you're not exactly comfortable with who you are. You desperately want to know for sure your place, but every time it comes along, its a place you don't want to be in. And like many of those offbeat girls, your teenage years just kind of came too early and you weren't exactly done with being a kid. You probably have a strong belief system so you don't want to change the foundation of how you live, but there are defiantly some aspects to your life. You never had a comming of age, or right of passage in some sense that made you think "its time to strart growing up now".

So in short, you desperately want a satisfactory identity as a teenager in order to fit in easier.

Answer 6

Sounds like you're dealing with sehnsucht or longing. Each person hopefully has an object that brings them an inarticulate sense of painful desire for something that feels unattainable and the most simple objects can bring them. Simplicity itself can communicate something deep and essential; something beautiful and painful. I felt it as a kid alot. "Joy and Pain, which strangely seem the same." There's a lot more I could say about this but I don't have time.

Answer 7

It's inspiration... hope... hold on to it... cherish it.

These fictional events and object simply re-inforce your own desire to understand who you are so that you can become better in some way... hopefully a way that transcends some ugly, dirty place no one wants to be in.
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Answer 8

You have become one with your second self, you no longer experience things, for you are the experience, you no longer
live life, life now live's through you . . .

You are it's represenitive, simply put, you now know what it is to be a most truly special person . . .


Wear it well my friend and you shall know true peace and
contentment . . .


a pleasant journey to you . . .

Answer 9

Sounds like "pathos" to me. The Ancient Greeks had a name for just about everything!

We use "pathos" to describe the feeling of a sad situation with built-in conflicts, where vulnerable creatures are threatened, maybe killed. The death of Bambi is a typical example of pathos.

PS I like your question!!

Answer 10

It sounds like nostalgia or yearning.