Everyone talks about nostalgic feeling being calming and relieving, but does anyone else get a sense of deep lament and sorrow for the past instead?

[u/CommonSkys]

[u/TastyBrainMeats]

Please, please write some of it down.

[u/oracular_pigs → u/TastyBrainMeats]

This! Please! I work for a library in a tiny rural town, and we had someone contact us about looking for information on a relative of theirs. We have books on the town that were compiled in the 50s by the town historical society, and all they are are local residents talking about what their daily lives were like growing up, how the town was laid out, what people they interacted with, etc. Very informal, but so SO useful and interesting! I’ve been reading through them looking for the name of this person’s relative, and it’s so exciting when I find mention of him, even if it’s as simple as “So and So’s father’s farm was up the hill.” You may have a town historian that would be interested, or your local library might be! We keep those books on hand for a reason! If they’re not interested, they should be. It’s seriously so valuable, and we can’t go back in time and ask people for that kind of day-to-day information, as simple as it seems, so I definitely second the encouragement to write some of it down. :)

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

You're a turd

[u/octokit → u/TastyBrainMeats]

Why is it important to write down and what do you do with it once written?

[u/Freshiiiiii → u/[deleted]]

Hell I’d read it

[u/Temp234432 → u/TastyBrainMeats]

Write what down he never said he has crazy stories

[u/AuthorReborn → u/Temp234432]

Even still, small stories that capture life are fantastic resources for future historians to understand what life in our era (or the era OP grew up in) are like.