Yes, mental time travel! I do that. The past was always so wonderful, bathed in a rosy glow of nostalgia. The present is so ho, hum. So mentally travel forw

Yes, mental time travel! I do that. The past was always so wonderful, bathed in a rosy glow of nostalgia. The present is so ho, hum. So mentally travel forward 20 years and put the present through the nostalgia filter. Oh, were times good then. We were younger, the kids were still small and cute, blah blah. All the hassle of day-to-day life will be forgotten and only rosy nostalgia will remain. Ditto, travel back 20 years and simply fill in those memories with the stuff you know happened back then too. Social embarrassments, missed sleep, stress at work, worries about the future perhaps. Oh right, the past was ordinary too.