Sweet, sweet nostalgia

I tend not to bring out my bad, good, or neutral past. You should too. What was in the past stay in the past. I move on with my life, and think of the future. Why? It's really ridiculous thinking about the past, when we all already have problems now on the present. This builds more stress and depression. Causing it less to break from it. It's unhealthy what you're doing right now. I advice you to avoid these kinds of situations, by getting out more. Spend a little time with your family, friends, etc. Anything that might help you refresh your mind.

Happens to me from time to time. All those hours I spent trying to beat the crap out of Halo on legendary, my first crush, that day when I unearthed a marble tombstone in the school playgroung under a tree, how my Martial Arts teacher used to smack us being the head if we didn't do something right and his moral sermons for which we loved him.

I can still hear him saying his welcome speech, first day of every year: "Do unto others what you would have them do to you. If you've got to remember one thing in life, that's the one, so get it in there. Learn to respect others, learn to understand others, learn to avoid conflict and never make use of violence in any other means than self defence.
If I hear that you've been up to something, I swear to you I will go out there, bring you back in here, and once I'm done with you, I will send you out, and you will never be allowed to set foot on this tatami ever again. Is that clear? Good. Now start running. And get those knees up."

It all seems so simple back then. I miss those days.

You don't seem to understand what I wrote so I will explain to you:
I just had these sudden flashbacks of these memories that made me feel good and at peace with myself.

I didn't recall them by will, but they came out of the blue.

I don't really care about the topic, but I have that wallpaper as my desktop.

The [much] greater majority of my past is dark, so I can't say that I've found myself feeling peaceful when thinking about it.

The sparse memories that do invoke a positive emotional state would probably be the summer before my freshman year in highschool, and my toddlerhood.

Yes, I wish I could go back and stay there. Being grownup sucks.

I've had this moment only once, I was laying down in a grassy field and memories of the past time when I was listening to a song came back, and I fell asleep and felt like I was on a cloud for a moment it felt like I was a kid again

I've had flashbacks when i'm just laying down and have nothing on my mind.

Everyone has flashbacks which are normally good memories. Having buried memories implies bad memories hence being buried. Both can be good in their own ways depending on point of view.

Most frequent trip down memory lane for me is go to Disney... still a kid at heart.

I love feeling nostalgia, like when you are going through boxes of old stuff and find something you have memories with.

I sometimes recall my childhood days when me and my cousin struggled to finish megaman 8, switching players every "game over"; when scraping my knee or making someone cry are my biggest problems.

At this point in time, some memories coming back aren't making me feel good, they're making me feel bad... Other than that, some nostalgia (like when I chuck on a song and remember the game I used to play a lot at the time... such as psychosocial by slipknot I think of warhammer 40k, cause I played it a lot with that song)
Also games are good. Putting in ff7 after the 4 year break between playing it, brought back so many memories... it was great.

Other than that, I seem to live in regret, so most of my memories of my past are bad ones, so I don't really try to think back... Good memories without regret are hard to find these days :/

I can understand you, I didn't have many good memories either .. but some good ones pop up in the most unusual time and place.

Dollci, I don't know if it's your fault (not saying it in a mean way, just in a playful manner) or not, but I've been thinking a lot about my past and just wish I could change some of the decisions. Ah the wonders of memories, I enjoy both, but sometimes, I just wish I could alter anything I want.

I don't understand how this is any of my fault, did I do anything bad?
( If you mean by opening up a thread that is sensitive then yes it's my fault )

And to reply to your post in a friendly manner I will answer this :
Would you change who you are now?

I mean every step you took has led you to become the person you are today, sure sometimes calling up memories is okay once in a while, but in the end you have to ask yourself if you are content with the person who you became now.

Nah, "fault" in a playful manner. But I have gotten memories and dreams kicking, probably from this thread.

Change? I wouldn't be here probably, I would probably be married and have a kid instead. I would probably be on the road with my ex to be honest. I would still be a "self-righteous/always right" asshole with the attitude.

While I am content with myself, I do like what I became, because I know more than likely I would be more closed if I didn't. I am content with everything else, I became more open-minded and trash my old opinions, so I did make some good decisions on a personal and social level, but other choices in-between were horrible.

I am split between changing and not changing.

Yeah I get you on that one ... if I had made some minor choices in my past then I would have drastically changed based on those minor decisions, like staying in shape, not getting myself in trouble with the cops, keeping my grades up, and eventually would have married my red headed crush in the days.

Yeah I definitely understand you.

( Bro hug )

Sometimes it happens to me, and I debate whether I did the right thing or there was some way to change the outcome, most of my childhood is hard for me to remember, all I remember most of the time is the awful times I've had.

The bad times are usually the ones we remember the most.