Inspirational Nostalgia Quotes to Find a Key to the Past Sometimes our precious past inspires our future. As you flip through ...

In other words, nostalgia is a way of coping with distress by temporarily escaping the pain of the present. And there’s no denying that the past two years have been painful and distressing.

Why are we so often pulled into memories of the past? This week, we bring you a 2018 episode about our ruminations on what we could have done differently, and what we wish we could do again.

Nostalgia, it should be recognised, isn't always a negative. Holding on to an idealised vision of the past can be an important comfort during difficult times, psychologists have found.