Everyone misses the old days, including the people who were miserable in them.

Memory keeps the shape of a time and drops the texture. You remember the summer and not the boredom inside it, the old friends and not the arguments, the corridor and not the dread on the walk in. So people miss years they spent desperate to escape. The past is not better, it is just finished, and finished things feel safe.

When nostalgia hits, add one true detail back before you decide the past beat the present. Ask what you actually spent those days worrying about. Then notice one thing about this week that you will probably miss later, while it is still happening.