Be Seekers of Nostalgia

Be Seekers of Nostalgia

"The term nostalgia describes a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations"

Mind advancement can come through nostalgia. It can come by us going out and creating unique experiences for ourselves in an effort to capture nostalgia, which are the beautiful memories of our past that can help us to feel safe, happy, and confident concerning the future. So then when we go out and create such experiences for ourselves in search of those old innocent memories, we then create new and healthy memories for the future time of when we will need to search for nostalgia again to help us. And on and on we will go, creating new and healthy memories that will soon come to outweigh the bad memories, now healing us of our addictive thinking. It's addictive thinking that we seek to get rid of - so we must search for a time when we did not think as addictive. I say as addictive, because all human beings think addictive, and even when we were children. My four year old little boy still craves his warm glass of whole milk every morning, afternoon, and night, because it gives him comfort and is something that feels the void. The difference between us and my little boy is that his addictive thinking is innocent, and has not yet progressed into a form of thinking that is destructive. It's obvious that milk isn't addictive compared to Opiates or Alcohol, which clearly shows that it's the substances we allow into our body that eventually cause us to think addictive in a destructive way. There's no genius to the above concept, only that we as human beings are all born into this world being some form of an addict. Just as my little boy craves his milk, then so do all people crave something; and its all dependent on what that something is, or what it eventually becomes. It is true that some are more prone to addictive thinking than others - which is where genetics come into play. However, what if the line of addiction gets spread through poor memories? Or poor nostalgia. The little boy witnessing his father being negative- where his Dad's always sleeping in, and constantly nodding off due to him carrying a ten year opiate habit. It seems to me in this situation that the disease might spread from the father to the little boy through the memory that this little boy will have of his father acting in such a dark way. It's the same of when children have to witness their father getting hauled away by be cops; such an experience can traumatize children, creating a deep and lasting memory - one that can spread the way of life that they saw being spent by their father- to now being their way of life down the road. Memories are so powerful, and they can be used for good and for bad. I'm under the belief that if we go in the way of creating new and healthy memories for ourselves, that such memories can become similar to a domino affect, where one falls down to compliment another, until all of the new and healthy memories have fallen in line and have blended together-now creating a new us. So now when times get hard in the future we will have created a number beautiful thoughts and memories to fall back on. All of us, no matter what our past might've been, do have some fond memories of a time well spent. For me, there is a certain neighborhood that I love to go and spend time in because of the nostalgia it leads me to having. It's an older neighborhood, and is where my old high school sits. There are times where I'll go park my car in my old high school parking lot, put on my running shoes, turn on my music, and travel  creatively into that neighborhood, jogging and walking, and just letting my thinking go in the way of the good old past. I almost always end up at a park on the west side of the neighborhood, where I then read, write, eat a healthy snack, and then get lost in further prayer and pondering. I often hear a train below, which then brings on more special thinking concerning the big picture of life, and why it is that we are all here. I love thinking like this because it helps me to put life in perspective; and when I put life in such a deep perspective, then I seem to travel forward in intelligence, and my motivation to take myself out of reality through my addiction becomes no more. I crave experiences like this because they get me high. I'm trying to get you to crave experiences like this so that you too can experience getting high through nostalgia. The only difference between those who escape the dark mind and those who don't is their willingness to try something completely unique to what they are comfortable doing. Many might think it to be weird to go out and create experiences such as the one I just described, but keep in mind that the ones who think it to be weird are the ones who are missing out on a deep and profound spiritual experience - and one that has capacity to feed insight and inspiration into their mind and soul.Don't be afraid to be unique - for it's within the unique mind that the most intelligence can be found.