i need to get this off my chest also
i am a sentimental person. and i made antonymph. so i wonder if it will be a surprise to people that i actually dislike wallowing in nostalgia quite a bit. i think one of the reasons i write about nostalgic things isn’t so much to WISH i was back, but more or less to figure out how to carry on into the future with a keen perspective on things that have passed. i am a futurist. i prefer to move along and push for greater more interesting more fulfilling things.
i kind of don’t want to pretend that things have ever been great or safe online, that there’s been a time where things were okay. the horrors i’ve witnessed and the trauma i carry stretches back as far as being an 11 year old on the internet. i think what we should be doing is trying to be vigilant in keeping people safe in the now. there is no safe place to return to because it’s never been safe.
i’ve had so many things go unprocessed, so i’ve finally been able to process them. that said, i don’t actually adore nostalgia or hope to cater to the idea of living in the past. i hope the future we build is far, far, far better than what any of us had growing up.