Well, the same principle applies to the golden glow of nostalgia. Oh, 10 years ago, how clear everything was, how optimistic about the future we were, how much

Well, the same principle applies to the golden glow of nostalgia. Oh, 10 years ago, how clear everything was, how optimistic about the future we were, how much younger and healthier our bodies were, blah blah. It gets really weird when you mentally project the present into future nostalgia. A particularly lovely late-afternoon winter day with the kids playing in the snow. Sure we're frazzled parents; nobody got enough sleep last night, dinner is uncertain etc. But we won't remember any of that in 10 years. All we'll see is aww, they were so cute, everything was so OK.