Golden Age Thinking

Nostalgia.

I recently saw the movie “Midnight in Paris”. A beautifully made movie draped in love for Paris. I must say in spite of the fact that Woody Allen is considered as one of the best movie makers, I have never been a fan. Maybe it’s the fact that he falls in the category of the artists who makes movies to keep their current muse as the center of their movies. But there is something in this particular movie that attracted me towards it.

I feel that this movie is made on people like me.

Now all of us remember the past. Some of us want to go back to yesterday, some want to go back to the last year. Some of us want to go back to the days of college while some of us want to go back to the day of our first kiss. But we all do remember past. Now there is a bunch of people who want to go back, go way way back into the past and live in the time that they think as the “Golden Age”.

Wishful thinking of going to a Golden Age is nothing but thinking that some different time is better than the current age one is living in. It’s Nostalgia! You hate the time you are living in and land up fantasizing about some era you feel was perfect. You romanticize! When you think of the era you feel like violins are playing softly in the background. The whole era is draped in the most beautiful colors of spring. The whole scenery has the fragrance of the first rain after summer.

What’s more, you feel you will land up meeting your idols from the past. You think you will get to talk to the people, who though not directly, have had an influence on the way you think about everything. Learn more about their lives. Live their lives with them. Become their groupies for all intents and purposes!! Wouldn’t it be just perfect!

Well if you have been nodding your head while reading, you are just like me. Dreamers. Well its no harm to wish to be in a place someplace else, but we have to remember to live the present. How else will you make a day worthy enough to go back to in years to come?!