For me, nostalgia is gratitude in the present for past circumstances.

0:00If you've ever looked at pictures from your past, or you look at a picture of you with old friends doing something, we tend to feel these feelings of nostalgia. What is nostalgia? So, to me, nostalgia is gratitude in the present [music] for past circumstances. And what's interesting about nostalgia is that for whatever reason, we're able to kind of look past all of the minutia of how we were feeling, our moods, and we're able to kind of like see big picture the things that we are grateful for. I tried to do this. I woke up thinking to myself, [music] if I were 85 years old and I got to go through a time machine and be back in my body as I am now to experience my life as though I'm experiencing [music] the day that I'm about to live from my 85-year-old self seeing it again. If I wake up and I go, I remember when we used to live here.

0:44This is so nice. Whatever reason, gratitude journals, the meditation, things like that, like I don't feel that. But thinking about my 85-year-old self being able to re-experience life through my 32-year-old body as though I'm going through it the second time the first time, it's really shifted how I see things.