. You catch yourself living in the past.
Nostalgia is a good and necessary state of mind sometimes. It’s a way for all of us to find lessons in every life experience, and peace in all which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time though, if nostalgia precipitates intentions and actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted past time, particularly in someone who believes her present life to be inadequate, then it’s an empty state of mind, doomed to produce nothing more than frustration and an even greater sense of unhappiness.