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When you feel like your best years are behind you

I keep scrolling through old photos from college when my friends and I were always together and now we barely text and I wonder if those were the best years of my life and I'm only 28.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind clings to past joy as evidence against present possibility.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.