My French 9 class recently finished the movie Midnight In Paris (I liked it), and the one thing that I got from it was this term called "Golden Age thinking". I was intrigued by this idea and found myself thinking about it for a while.
"Nostalgia is denial - denial of the painful present... the name for this denial is golden age thinking 0 the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one ones living in - its a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present." - Midnight In Paris
I have definitely not lived enough years to even remotely experience Golden Age thinking, but I think that I feel it to some extent. For sure, I find it difficult to cope with the present. When I look back at my Facebook profile and scroll back to my first year of high school, I feel a pang of extreme nostalgia. I can see how ignorant, inexperienced, and... plain stupid I was. The relationships that I had with my friends... they've changed so much over the span of just a year.
Yes, I feel nostalgia. I want to go back to that time. Do I regret what I've done? I don't know what I've done so far. Am I happy with life? No, but then again, I think there is no way that anybody can be happy with life. Even if we are happy, we find things to be unhappy about.
New Month
Wow. This much time has already passed. It seems like just yesterday I was getting to know all the new people I've met. I can't say that I've fallen into a balanced routine of school and friends and leisure activities, but at this point of life, I wouldn't say that it's unbearable. While I don't particularly enjoy this period of my life, I don't hate it either. I live because there's nothing else to do.
Anyhow. Cheers to a new month. I started off this month with a sore throat and throbbing headache, but hopefully the rest of Decemeber will compensate for it. I am a 7 today. I'm actually really excited for the grade eight elections. Can't wait to see the new leaders of the school.
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." - Soren Kierkegaard
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