Obsessed with Nostalgia

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Yes, this is what i wanna do, it's like having a remote, and just rewinding to certain times, looking down on my "former" self as i am now.
I'm so glad i wasn't alone posting this thread!

Living in the past is a big problem for me.

Over the last year or so I have found myself making sense of why.

Suddenly my peers and I seemed to go off in different directions, during puberty, & I still seem to be stuck at around the time this happened.

I still live in the mid 1980s, in my mind.

Some people call me "80s Man" in a good natured way, because of my constant references to the decade, during conversation.

After puberty my school friends & I were on very different wavelengths & were not getting along anywhere near as well as before, resulting in a parting of ways.

With hindsight I can now see that this was due to a brain developmental issue.

This is why I'm obsessed with the 80s.

Because I am unable to move on from those days when everybody changed, but me.

I like European films from the 1970s and the 1980s, particularly the obscure TV testcard music of that period.

That sounds a bit depressing actually.

Anyone into the idea of Ostalgie?

Maybe in a past life, you were from the future.

For example, I'd like to go back to our summer vacation cottage and instead of running around in my bike, sit by the pile of burning pine needles in the garden and smell the delicious aroma, watch the reflections of the sun among the pine branches, feel the gravel of the path under my bare feet. Once God gave me a gift, I was sent back to my home country from work (it's on the other side of the world, so I wouldn't have been able to afford the trip) and I visited the summer cottage. There were no pines anymore, they'd been all uprooted.

I'd like to go back to the spring/summer of 1989. (I WAS alive during this time, but I turned 2 that August and don't remember any of it.) It was a great time for my special interests. Lucille Ball died on April 26th, 1989, and the Magnum XL-200 opened at Cedar Point on May 6th, 1989. I can't express how badly I wish that I could have ridden the Magnum in its debut season.