This in one picture captures exactly why I keep a diary.
I’ll be reminiscing about a time some years ago, feeling feelings about it - but if I want to know what I really felt, I can just look it up
It’s powerful and humbling.
euphoric recall
Submitted 5 months ago by downpunxx@fedia.io to memes@sopuli.xyz
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grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 months ago
how many people log and graph their emotions?
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 5 months ago
I did when I was trying out CBT and meds using specific questionnaires and charting the results. It was super helpful to figure out what worked and what didn’t and have data to back that up.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Rofl probably most people too busy just getting by, like surviving. But I write to relax instead of TV or video games usually, so I get pretty wild with it.
I’ve got a super subjective “emotional compass” doodle that I can quickly scratch out in the margins.
I do wish I’d started sooner, but doubt I’d have had the patience/headspace for this stuff before middle age perspective came a knocking
protist@mander.xyz 5 months ago
6
xenoclast@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There’s not a lot of metrics (the potential of getting better healthcare being the exception), that aren’t objectively worse globally. I’d be curious what your diary says to that…
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
I mean it’s super self centered, so it comes out mostly as guilt or gratefulness or a stirring like I should be doing more for my community. Pandemic onward it kinda went into overdrive.
Like nowadays I have multiple homeless encampments within 15 minutes walking distance, which was absolutely not the case pre-pandemic.
I’ve faired alright though, hence the guilt etc
htrayl@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Things that have been improving:
- Global poverty rate (going down)
- Global average lifespan (going up)
- Global literacy rate (going up)
- Global internet access (going up)
- Global infant mortality and maternal mortality (going down)
The reality is, most of the world by many metrics is getting better over time. There are things that threaten this (climate change and increasing authorititarianism) and it has slowed, but overall we are still generally positive trajectory wise.
hperrin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well at least in 2014 the republicans were still pretending they weren’t all racist scumbags.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You remember the Obama years differently than I do.
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I think it’s a matter of scale, back in 2014 they were scumbags with a thin veneer of “decency” that veneer got sandblasted off and now there’s only a bag of hate left.
magnetosphere@fedia.io 5 months ago
A friend who had been through rehab explained the concept of euphoric recall to me. I had been missing an ex, and it helped a lot.
Blackout@kbin.run 5 months ago
That 2001 nostalgia tho
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
The best
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nostalgia heroin for old people.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nostalgia is a bitch that lies to you that the past is better, when it’s not.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nostalgia is you forgetting or not knowing the bad parts.
DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 5 months ago
so do things you hate now, so you can enjoy them in the future
danc4498@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m 23 and that’s deep
unreachable@lemmy.world 5 months ago
how our mind tricks itself
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Back in my day nostalgia was better. Kids these days don’t know what nostalgia really is.
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Make 2014 the guy that 2024 remembers, thinking about the depressed 2024 guy thinking about the happy 2014 guy, and that’s me. I knew I was in probably the best part of my life while it was happening and enjoyed it while I could. Not that I didn’t have suicidal thoughts then too but it was definitely the most fun. More 2015-16 though.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I feel like this is mainly because things keep getting worse so you look back and think “Hey maybe that wasn’t so bad after all”
TurtleJoe@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The social media algorithms were definitely much different in 2014. They tended to promote links to outside articles and trending topics, even if those links were to BuzzFeed listicles. In 2015/16 they had all changed to trying to keep people engaged on the original site, so they started pushing rage bait that would get people arguing in the comments.
In 2014, everybody was talking about what color that dress was. In 2015, Breitbart was like the number 3 most popular shared “news” site on Facebook.
protist@mander.xyz 5 months ago
The Great Depression, World War II, and Jim Crow are calling
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hey I’m not saying that far back. We were actually on a pretty good path for a while there in like the 70’s-90’s.
Things weren’t good but it seemed like things were actually geared toward making life better for everyone.
Then the fire nation attacked.