Figuring out this nostalgia thing
It is not regret or remorse, not even disappointment over something in the past, but nostalgia is still very much real. I guess that happens coz it is the memory of a moment, a moment frozen with an emotion attached to it, irrespective of the causative factors. When in a flurry of thoughts, I capture one moment and feel nostalgic; it is because I happen to remember that I was happy at that moment notwithstanding what caused that happiness. It is a photographic memory of that moment.