In their paper “The power of the past: Nostalgia as a meaning-making resource,” Clay Routledge and his colleagues mention how, historically, nostalgia (understood as sentimental longing for the past) ...

Nostalgia is a Greek compound. It is the combination of the word νόστος (nóstos) or “homecoming” and ἄλγος (álgos), “pain and ache.” This deconstruction of the word precisely describes, in my opinion, ...

Ah, nostalgia, our bittersweet friend. I get nostalgic more than I probably should, mostly when I think about how simple life was when my siblings and I were still so young, playing around the house ...