i like alan debotton on this. he says wisdom consists partly in understanding regret is part of the human experience and will not be solved enitirely by making "the perfect choices" similar to this is nostalgia. understand outselves and our emotions should lead to us enjoying and rembering and striving for superior pleasures as aristole teaches in the nicomeanean ethics. but suffering and mental weirdness exist as buddists and others teach.
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Nostalgia is such a weird thing. I have feelings of nostalgia about different time periods in my life but I know that it isn’t as amazing as I remember it to be. We forget the pain of the bad times.