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Why avoiding nostalgia creates its own problems

I deleted all my social media last year to be more present but now I have no record of the past two years and I feel like I'm disappearing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Rejecting the past completely can untether us from continuous identity.

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“Where Are You with Nostalgia — its function and its limits?”

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