I miss my childhood extremely

Music, and scent are two things that can almost take me back in time.

Yes, nostalgia is very real! I've always been very nostalgic myself and would do anything to cling onto old times and try to resurrect them, but have finally learned to be content in the present and find the good things about it. Even during some of the worst times in my life, I have found myself reminiscing on the good from that time, so I try to enjoy the good that is happening right now while it's still here and appreciate it before I someday am nostalgic for it, but spent the time being nostalgic for another time.

You can always keep the memories with you forever and they will never leave you. But, try to remember that when one door closes, another one opens, and try to be open to see what the present and future has in store for you! I know it is hard. I know it's easy to take comfort in the past because the unknown of the future is scary. But, we just have to learn to enjoy things while they're here and work to improve our lives to the best of our ability.

Nostalgia is a universal emotion. Almost everyone is hit with those feelings now and then, and we're especially prone to them when we're in the process of transitioning from one phase of life to another or the world around us is going through a period of big changes.

It's tempting to look back on our lives or how our society was organised in previous times, remember only the positive things and mourn their loss. But unless your early life was profoundly blessed in every possible way, you must have experienced your share of confusion, frustration, anger and sadness when you were a child. Wallowing in all the negative events and emotions you experienced as a kid isn't helpful, and it's particularly unhelpful to blame all the bad decisions you make as an adult on your less than perfect childhood. But it's also unhelpful to believe that your life hit peak-wonderful when you were a kid, and it's all downhill from here on out.

Facing up to the realities of adulthood can be difficult. When you were a kid, you had no real responsibility for the big things that happened in your life, but now you need to take ownership of your decisions and the path your life takes. That's daunting, and it is a fact that people will let you down and you will let them down, you'll be uncertain about what the hell you should do almost every time you face a big decision and you will screw up in many ways, both big and small.

That's just how life is. Everyone has to deal with that stuff, and all the bright and shiny and perfect lives you see depicted on social media are lies to some extent.

If you're dealing with levels of anxiety that prevent you from making the decisions you need to take in order to move forward in your life or if you find interpersonal relationships extremely difficult, you might consider seeking counselling about this.

But you don't need counselling in order to recapture the joy of simple things. That's about allowing yourself to be in the moment as you were when you were a child. It's called mindfulness these days and there are lots of websites with advice on how to do it, but when I was about your age, I called it going to the woods, finding someplace comfortable to sit, and just focusing on the sights, sounds and smells around me.

Brings back my childhood every time, miss late 90s and early 00s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOj8FjnKVfk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7SsiWj7H44

Childhood memories are always attached to everyone even if they die.

The childhood memories impact people's lives the same way that the present does.

What you are describing is totally normal.

it is normal for people with good childhood memories,