> Speaking for myself I think through childhood I have just been too damn busy all the time with school and my own projects Me too, but I remember playing with

> Speaking for myself I think through childhood I have just been too damn busy all the time with school and my own projects Me too, but I remember playing with my neighbor. The details are gone but I remember about some specific moments and experience too. > And by not continually remembering myself the recent past, I eventually forgot about it when it became a distant past. Why is it important to remember the past from such a long time ago? I remember what happened last week more clearly than what happen last year. I remember my final months in university a bit more clearly that the first year, which itself is clearer than my childhood. Actually I had to count how long ago were my final months, it's been 6 years. However, some key points and formula from the first year are still extremely clear in my head, because I've been using them frequently. Forgetting about the distant path may be a feature, not a bug: it's like a garbage collector running in the background taking care of memories that haven't been retrieved in a long time, to make room for new ones that may be more useful. Old but useful memories aren't touched by the GC. I'd say that's good: I care way more about the board game I played last week that some obscure details about childhood toys that have 0 utility in the present. Nostalgia is just a preference for the well know, causing desire to revive the past masquerading as utility, making us wrongly discount present day innovations by lack of familiarity with them.