Nostalgia is the feeling of longing for something, mostly a time in the past. I’ve always hated the feeling of nostalgia, of not being able to return to a time I felt so much happiness in. I’ve recently learned that nostalgia has the same type of feeling that grief does. Grief and nostalgia typically go hand in hand. When you’re grieving something or someone we feel sad and confused similar to how we feel not being able to return to the time we want. I used to wonder why grieving feels the way it does and the way I see it now is because your mind can no longer find the connection it’s used to having. It’s searching for something that was always there and is now gone. Even though grief and nostalgia seem like bad things, I feel now that they aren’t. We are so fortunate to be able to feel so much for things and people we had in our lives. If we feel nostalgia and grief for the time and people we had in our lives we know we lived that time right. We were able to bring so much joy and happiness into the universe. It’s an amazing thing to have had and I believe everyone should be able to experience this in their lives.