Nostalgia: what a feeling!

Postado em 19/03/2017.

Tonight I'm going to write my last text in this blog and it makes me feel a little sad, because I really enjoy writing and it's been very nice to write in English. I wish I had more time and more patience to write (I mean, without the commitment of doing it, just for fun). 

I can be so lazy sometimes x.x

Anyway, let's start. 

This text is about one of the best feelings in the world: Nostalgia. If you don't know or don't remember what is nostalgia, I found this definition in the dictionary: "a feeling of happiness mixed with sadness when you think about things that happened in the past". It's kinda weird when you read it, don't you think? I guess that's because nostalgia is very difficult to describe, and that's why I'm going to talk a little bit about my experience with this feeling.

In my opinion, nostalgia has a lot to do with missing things that were really good in the past and that don't really make part of your reality right now, specially things from your childhood (but don't worry, my friends: who said that you can't have some of these things back? Hehe). For example, I feel very nostalgic when I watch a Harry Potter movie. It can be any of them, it doesn't really matter which one it is (although I confess that I feel bored when I watch the fifth and the sixth ones). It reminds me of when I was younger and used to see these movies with one of my friends all the time. We were big fans and we had a great time watching the movies and imagining that we were in that world full of magic, spells and adventures. I still remember some of the sentences from the movies, and it makes my heart smile and cry at the same time, because I can't watch these movies as frequently as I used to (damn you, adulthood).

Funny fact: there was a time when I used to watch Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire AND Madagascar (the movie from DreamsWorks) every morning before school. I guess I did it for a week or two, and I used to take turns, one day for each.

One thing that I realized that I was missing A LOT in my life (but that never really left) and that made part of my childhood, is Pokémon. OMG, I loved this when I was a kid (I used to watch the anime and the movies all the time) and I still love it. I follow lots of pages on Facebook that talk about it, I save images that I find cute or cool about it, I learned how to play the card game two or three years ago (I'm kinda late, I know, but the important part is that I learned xD and I can kick your asses in this game u.u shauoshao) and I have lots of items of Pokémon (stuffed animals/pokémons, T-shirts, stickers, etc.). 

Every time there's an event about Animes or Pop Culture in general in Pelotas, Rio Grande or Porto Alegre I try to go, because it's like paradise to me. I buy lots of things and in the last event I went, that was in Rio Grande, I had lots of fun and got really nice, special and nostalgic items of Harry Potter, Pokémon and Sailor Moon, for example. 

I don't understand why some people think that these things should stay in the past, that they're "childish" and don't fit in people of my age. My message for these people is: shut up and stop worrying about my life. If that makes me happy and it's not hurting anyone, so why are you judging it so much? Every one of us was a kid once, but some of us seem to have forgotten that (this ideia comes from the book The Little Prince, actually xD). I can like things from my childhood and there's nothing wrong about it, I'm not less mature because of that and it doesn't mean that I don't like "adult stuff" too (whatever it is).

I think I may have sounded kinda pissed off... Sorry, I just don't like when people mock me because of that kkk. Let's return to the good part:

Recently, I watched a video that made me feel SO nostalgic: do you remember High School Musical? The disney movie from 2006 (yes, it's been more than 10 years, you can feel old now xD)? Well, Ashley Tisdale (which played Sharpay Evans) has a channel on YouTube, and she posted two months ago a video with her best friend, Vanessa Hudgens (yes, it's Gabriella Montez!). They made a cover of a song called "Ex's and Oh's", and guys... I can't explain what I felt while I was watching the video. It was so good to see these girls again, they were my divas! The music is so cute and I felt so serene while listening to it.

I wrote a lot, so... I guess I need to finish here xD

Please, don't forget about the things that made you happy when you were a kid and don't let anybody judge you because you like them, they're part of who you are. Nostalgia is beautiful and we can't just leave behind the child that we were once. 

I'll leave here two things: one of them is Ashley's video with Vanessa and the other one is a link to a brazilian YouTube channel called Nostalgia (what a coincidence kkk). The owner is Felipe Castanhari and I really love his work. Actually, I love him too <3 hsuaoush. 

I hope you like it :3 Bye.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5pzC_gUlpA

Nostalgia - Felipe Castanhari: https://www.youtube.com/user/fecastanhari