Anyone else tear up due to nostalgia

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I can tear up about the past, but it certainly isn´t nostalgia.
Being 20 again wouldn´t be bad, - provided, I could keep my experience. I wouldn´t want to do it anew.

I do. Particularly when I see certain things from my childhood like old toys, movies, books that I adored to death. I get really emotional that those days are gone.

Yes - for the years before I was 11. Before then I was OK, then I moved schools and never fitted in or had friends again.

Now I live 300 miles away, but I still think of my childhood town as 'home'. I use Streetview to walk round the old streets and see the local park. It's surprising how little has changed over fifty years. The shop names are different, but the buildings and roads themselves are the same.

Definitely! I'm about the same age as you (24) so we probably have very similar nostalgia when it comes to the earlky 90's. Things were so much easier back then, and not just because we were children. The world was a very different place. No internet, no facebook, no I Phones. People had to make their own fun. Music had more integrity, as did films, tv programmes and video games. I cry when I think of some of the magical times I had with my older bro when I was little. Man, I miss being a kid, and especially a kid in the 90's.

Garfield was awesome! I remember it used to be on after ZZZap!, which I HATED, lol.. It gave me nightmares, that show, haha What other shows do you remember dude?

This, and all kinds of other stuff too. s**t, that's just part of being an old fart. You think of your parents, your grandparents, friends that have died, you wonder how you got through some stuff.

I remember watching the film Oh Brother Where Art Thou recently and when they showed a burning cross, played some bluegrass music, showed people getting baptized at the river, etc. I just cried like a big ole baby. Now I'm too young to have experienced the great depression myself, being in my fifties (would rather not be more specific, thanks), but that kind of stuff just resonates real deep in my family. People would tell me how wonderful the movie was and how fascinating it was to them to look at an artistic depiction of those times. I got all of that but I still thought to myself "well, you wouldn't be so excited about it all if your dad was stabbed just for a can of beans back then, or your uncle told you what it was like to wake up in the middle of the night and find a group of clan members burning a cross on his front porch".

Sometimes I just take a look around and think how I can't believe that I got where I am today, when I lived in a tar paper shack, used to go and pick cotton so we could eat... IMHO God's pretty good if he made something out of a guy like me. Can't believe I even got diagnosed and got myself through college at a young age, when before that I had no idea if a woman would ever love me, if I'd ever be able to support myself, if I'd ever do something other than picking cotton, digging ditches, canning beans. Other people have it so much worse now, way worse, and I feel accomplished, even elated. I think "well this is my life" and that alone tears me up.

No, I spent much of my childhood clinically depressed, and while I gradually kicked that I still spent many adult years feeling isolated and lonely. There is a very short list of things I can feel nostalgic about, but right now is the happiest I've ever been.

I felt GREAT on the day I ETS'ed from the army

I found this quote on pinterest. It is very apt for me I do look back with nostalgia but as some of you have said it is the regret and the sense of lost opportunity. If I knew what I knew now and could go back and do it all differently. I am not sure about the future part of this quote, however.

The reason why people find it so hard to be happy
is because they see the past as better than it was
and the present worse than it is
and the future less resolved than it will be

^^^
that is pithily perfect