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Enjoy past memories

Enjoy past memories

From the course: Happiness Tips

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Enjoy past memories

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- I explained earlier in this series that it's a bad idea to get too obsessed with the past. Either with negative emotions like regrets or with apparently positive emotions like nostalgia because actually nostalgia isn't entirely positive, is it? There's an element of if only I could turn the clock back, which you can't, and an implication that you're not as happy now as you once were. Comparing the present with times that may have been better, if you can believe your selective memory, is only going to make you less happy about the present. And the fact that you can't go back, the past is the only place you can't visit, is an additional sadness. But maybe we can get some happiness from the past. Maybe going back over happy memories and reliving them can give us that happiness all over again, especially if we could just go back and relive the best bits, the happiest bits, that would surely be a good idea. I suppose it depends on what sort of relationship you have with the past. If…

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