I'm being a little too honest here but I've always had a bad habit of living too much in the past.  I know it's not a good thing and I really need to enjoy NOW but the past seems to be my happy place if I'm feeling depressed I like to go to.  Are there others like me?

Yep, me too. They don't call them " the good old days" for nothing

@jbmaine, I appreciate your honesty on what is really a private thing that many people I don't think like to admit.  I had a hard time mentioning it on here but thought it might be therapeutic.

I hear you buddy. I like some of that good old days stuff from time to time. Heck I set there and think about it and laugh like heck. Like I’m a crazy person. I’m in it for what today is bringing. You have to. And can only control so much of that. Listen man some of that old stuff is like a happy place. Don’t loose it. This country is a messed up place right now. I can not and won’t get political on here. This day to day stuff we have to go through doesn’t help us any. Don’t be going and getting yourself all depressed. There are things that you/me can control and there are things we can’t. And those thing we can’t just leave them for somebody else. Sorry I don’t know you. If it were so I’d hook up the boat and we’d go fishing and talk about that old day stuff. Today and near future will get better. Don’t over stress yourself and don’t let anyone put unnecessary stress on you. 

I think it depends. Were the good ole days really good?

 

If you remember them as being good then continue to go there for your happy place.

Just connected with an old fishing buddy yesterday via phone. He pretty much taught me everything I know about fishing...this was in 1992-94.  We last talked in about 10 years ago. Great man! Great friend! It was good to connect again, and remember past fishing days.

 

I think about the past a lot as well. Some good stuff, some not so good stuff. I'm glad to be where I am here and now.  

the older you get, the more past you have to live in.

Sorry but I am probably way older than any of you.  Yesterday is gone and forgotten.  I just got in from the lake and am planning my next trip.  I don’t have time to reminisce.

Some wise words in cartoons....

 

 

 

 

100% normal - "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them." You just have to make good new days, and appreciate what's in front of you. Much easier said than done!

The good old days for me was the 60's.  Amazing life back then for a teenager.  But, as mentioned, unless someone comes up with a way to time travel back in time, those days are long gone, and while I think about the good times I had back then, I think more about the good times I plan on having in the days to come, and doing things the with the grandkids they will enjoy.  I didn't have those back in the 60's.

I guess my brain works on a different wave length that others because I don't know that I have ever been "depressed", and don't really know what being depressed would feel like.  I get frustrated and aggravated to the point sometimes I have to walk away from something I'm doing on one of those days nothing seems to want to go right, but I don't think that's getting depressed.  I just go do something else that hopefully will go a little better. I don't think I've ever had a time I just wanted to sit down and do nothing because I felt like it was useless.

I've just spent most of the day dragging out an old radio controlled 4WD truck and getting it back in good working order and thinking about how much fun the grandkids are going to have with it.  Just have to do something to limit the speed control.  The sucker runs over 30mph and does wheel stands if you go full throttle from the start, which is probably a bit much for a five and six year old if I want it to live more than two minutes.

I spend a whole lot more time thinking about the things I'm going to do than those things I did.    

9 minutes ago, Way2slow said:

I spend a whole lot more time thinking about the things I'm going to do than those things I did.    

I like the way you think!