A fork of Rural Dictionary
Excessive amount of nostalgia and grieving for the past to the point where present and the future becomes irrelevant for the person. This can be mostly caused by lack of happiness in the present and depression. The name destructive comes from the fact it causes destruction of the future due to being demotivated to do anything for it.
Patient: "The present and future has nothing for me, the brightness of my lost past is corroding my mind."
Therapist: "That sounds like destructive nostalgia."
people who intentionally journey to a particular place in order to conjure a sentimental longing for their past.
"Johnny acts like so many other nostalgia pilgrims when he drives through his old childhood neighborhood during his annual visit to his hometown during the holidays."
misrepresenting someone else's history of a place and selling it back to them
this 538 Johnson hippie run website is really nostalgia cuckolding the punk scene
A disease characterized by suddenly going back to things that one enjoyed in the past
After buying some Star Wars action figures I started suffering from Nostalgia’s Disease
Blinded by nostalgia is typically a term referring to a player in a video game who knows that they enjoyed a certain newer update of a game, but act as if an older update of the game was better, because it was more "nostalgic", even though the update didn't bring really good stuff.
"Season 3 was better than Chapter 2 Season 2"
"You are blinded by nostalgia"