50 Memes To Remind You How Good Life Once Was, As Shared By The “Ouch, Right In The Childhood” Page (New Posts)
“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return,” stated Milan Kundera.
The days that were and the days that will never be again sum up the joys of feeling nostalgic for something. The daily rut of getting out of bed, making coffee, working for excessive hours, socializing with people, coming home to watch Netflix, sleep and repeat, falls short of the happiness of childhood.
Those days when life seemed oh so interesting, complex, and explorative. Those days when TV actually had something good on regardless of timing or day of the week. Those days when one didn’t have to pay rent, worry about being able to afford eggs, or ponder the purpose of existence. All those feelings can be summed up in the posts by this Instagram page called “Ouch, Right In The Childhood.”
They come with a warning of having the potential to ruin your childhood, so be careful as you scroll through this list, upvoting your favorites and leaving comments in the sections below. It’ll be a good time! And if you’d like another hit of nostalgia, here’s another Bored Panda article right here. Now let’s get into it!
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A sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past. That, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call nostalgia. A craving for the way things were. An idyllic way of remembering the past. The bittersweet feeling of happiness and pain intermixing. Those times will never truly come back, but there are bits and pieces of them still present.
The page called “Ouch, Right In The Childhood” has made it their mission to keep the nostalgia train running with their witty memes. Although the page comes with a warning of the potential ruining of one’s childhood, their 142K followers seem to not mind. Started in August 2016, they’re still going strong.
Nostalgia is one of those feelings that is universally familiar, and yet the experience of it is specific to each person. What one person feels deep feelings of longing for, another may have completely forgotten about, and vice versa. Yet in both cases, that feeling may be a result of our own thought processes, rather than an accurate representation of memory.
There is a reason that Alan R. Hirsch refers to nostalgia as a screen memory—not a true recreation of the past, but rather a combination of many different memories, all integrated together, and all negative emotions getting filtered out in the process. One can never return to this past, as it never truly existed, and the present reality, no matter how good, can never be as good as an ideal.
I always smile when I remember this great, wonderful, kind, and very funny man! RIP Robin, you were always a treasure!🥰😁😢❤️
The nostalgic urge to recreate the past within the present in many ways explains the choices we decide to make. Marrying spouses with characteristics reminiscent of those of our parents, painting walls the same colors we had in our childhood bedrooms, sleeping with a stuffed toy, building a diet with the foods that we grew up with, etc.
As Dr. Hal McDonald states, we are, after all, the leading actors in the memories that we classify as nostalgic, so some reflection on the type of role we play in those memories is necessary for determining how important or meaningful those past experiences are to the present in which we remember and embody them.
I can't remember ever thinking I wished we had internet. I can't remember being bored either.
Although we think of nostalgia as something that one is fond of, a positive thing in general, back in 1688 Swiss physician Johannes Hofer defined it as a neurological illness. It wasn’t until the 19th century that things started to shift. According to VeryWellMind, another Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung saw nostalgia as a way of reconnecting with our past and understanding our present.
Studies have shown that nostalgia can have positive effects on mental and physical health. For example, nostalgia has been shown to boost immune function and reduce stress levels, and can also help to increase life satisfaction and reduce anxiety. But, of course, everything has to be taken in moderation, as nostalgia can lead to a sense of loneliness and isolation and make us less likely to take action in the present.
And today, the actors who played Short Round was nominated for an OSCAR and he's predicted to WIN!!! CONGRATS Short Round 🎉🎊
There are a few things you can do to avoid the negative effects of nostalgia. As advised by VeryWellMind, one should aim to ground themselves in the present moment. What are you doing right now that you enjoy? Also, make an effort to connect with others, spend time with people you care about, and talk to them about your positive memories.
Furthermore, do things that make you happy. Listen to music, go for walks, watch your favorite movie. If you’re feeling particularly down or drifting more and more into the past, it would be a good idea to speak to a therapist about it all, as they can help you make sense of things. Most importantly, be mindful of how much time you spend dwelling on the past.
I live in the UK. Half a cup of sleet and it's ROAD CARNAGE AS BRITAIN FREEZES
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Boomers: I had to go to school in 10 ft of snow walking uphill both ways barefoot Kids now: I have to go to school dodging bullets and not knowing if I'm going home alive thanks to you
You got a valid point. I'm sorry I made a similar reference about my dad. Nobody had to dodge bullets. In class you got in trouble for chewing gum & passing notes.
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Before online schooling a snow day was often not a freebie, just a delay. Nice now but sucked later when the start of summer vacation was delayed. Of those two, I'd rather do a day(s) of school from home and then start summer vacation on time.
The only time I had to go to school in June was because of an Alaskan type 'snow' day. I've waited for the bus in -50F weather but school was only cancelled when the ice fog was so thick that a school super intendant almost rear ended a school bus.
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Nothing was more exciting then your school being called off at 6:00 that morning!
Watching the closings scrolling across the bottom of the news and waiting to see yours closed lol
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I went to school in San Diego County, there was no such thing as a "snow day". We had heat days though. If it was gonna reach 100 Fahrenheit by noon, we got out of school early. Although Alpine and Julian got snow sometimes so maybe they had snow days.
i lived in northern canada, never even knew snow days were a thing until i moved to the u.s.
Schools usually plan so many days off in a calendar year for snow days, does this mean they'll be let out early this summer?
I live in Oklahoma, 36 degrees and like a millimeter of snow. We got an hour off of school.🤦
I'm in Oklahoma too. 3-6 inch on for cast, half the state shut down.
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Oh Lord yes! My kids get a literal day off when it snows more than a couple of inches. The schools don't close, apparently, but the buses don't run. Since the school year is mostly over all the winter months, this system is totally ridiculous. If they want to make sure that there's no snow for every school day, they'll need to change the school year to run from April forward.
I think some districts are reinstating snow days...the demand is too great!
I was so sad about this. I didn’t want my grandbabies to miss out and convince my daughter to have a random day off during the winter whether there was snow or not.
Is it weird that I got upset that that post is from my city news Channel? I'm out of school and grateful.
i graduated in 1993 from high School in Ohio, I never got days off for bad weather ,than after graduating, then my High School, started having days off again 😆I got screwed over lol
In north central Massachusetts, school buses didn't run if there was 6" of snow or more, but the rest of us still went to school with up to a foot of snow. That was 85% went to school. We didn't envy the bus riders' day off, because they had to make up what we had already learned. In the 1920s and 1930s, my mother lived miles away and had to ski to school in the winter.
It was horrible having all these kids at home doing online school! And they did it for almost 2 years. They didn’t have any socialization, didn’t see their friends, and got little if any exercise! I’m glad that all the kids went back to a brick and mortar school!
Feel lucky to live in an area that closes schools when necessary and doesn't require online classes. Even the University where I work does this. (Colorado, USA) And it doesn't always have anything to do with the depth of the snow.
To get to and through some of the high schools/secondary schools that I attended in the 1980s (I went to 8 different ones) I would sometimes have to become an affiliated member of a "Multi-Ethnic Social Club".
Live in Canada, the most northern provincial capital (Edmonton, AB), I only remember a couple of odd snow days. Most of the time, bundle up and continue on with your day, go to school. Those days must have been Bitter Cold!
Then you learn that snow days weren't days subtracted from the school year... The district had a certain amount of "extra" days added to their calendar to account for the snow days... so you still had the exact same number of days in school that you would've had the snow day not happened...
Here in New England, they cancelled school for 4" of snow... We got slush. Back in the 90's, we went to school when it snowed like crazy and we just did it...
nooooo!!! I remember listening to the radio waiting my city to be on the list...I remember the anticipation...and the feeling of relief when I *did* hear it. Fun fact - I am from MA...and I remember hearing as they read out the school cancellation list "....Charlton...then "Chelsea...Clinton...". Always made me chuckle.
I live in Co. we just had a snow day for schools. But work…nah, y’all juggled kids and home and work for 2 years. Log in, minions!
I went to school in the Philippines. We didn't even have snow to have snow days. We did sometimes have rain days, though, when it was raining so hard during monsoon season that the roads were too flooded to be safely driven.
At the end of the day, nostalgia is an experience that unites us all as people. Albeit different in each case, nostalgia motivates us to remember the past, uniting us with that authentic self and reminding us of who we have been, then comparing that to who we feel we are today. The conflict of the bitter longing for what can never be again together with the sweetness of having experienced it is what makes us all inherently human.
As you continue to scroll through this list of hilarity and painful nostalgia, make sure you’re upvoting your favorites and leaving comments along the way, and I shall hope to see you in the very next one! Have yourselves a good one!
Scriptwriter: "I dreamed of writing the Great American Novel, but this is what I ended up doing instead. Oh well, might as well make the best of it and use some of my "A" material."
And the next line, for anyone wondering is: Ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gnaht ym tup i. Which is the original line, backwards.
Mythbusters did this one once. The bad guys would hear you crawling through that metal vent from a mile away. Clang clang clang. "I'm being stealthy" Clang clang clang.
After I watched this a few times I remember thinking about that same thing and there goes the Ed Gein of the Cars world!
Many celebs will wear the same thing in public because it makes the paparazzi photos worth less money.
For the rest of us it is trying to kneel on a piece of wood balanced on a kitchen table, trying to saw a bit off and the wood keeps moving, you then find the cut piece is crooked and you've left a small nick in the table top. Sawdust is sticking to you and you tea/coffee has gone cold.
Idk what to call it but it needs a name.. Toothlasaur? Someone help me out here
There is a photo from a particular type of adult movie, involving a group of black males towering over a very small white girl. I believe this is in reference to that particular photo,
that's just a movie pic. Maggie Smith is actually in a reasonably good health
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Bored Panda, I don't know how you manage to assemble so many quirky, interests, and diverse categories, but don't stop. I always look forward to your newest offerings.
As an incredibly young gen z I relate to like all of these are you seriously telling me there are epeople in the world who haven't seen httyd or Kung fu panda
Does anybody remember Ford gum? It was square, and only sold in vending machines in restaurants, and they were always sponsored by the local Kiwanis Club. The machines always dispensed two pieces, IIRC.
Commenting on the last one: I remember how Maggie Smith looked in Othello, playing Desdemona across from Laurence Olivier.
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Bored Panda, I don't know how you manage to assemble so many quirky, interests, and diverse categories, but don't stop. I always look forward to your newest offerings.
As an incredibly young gen z I relate to like all of these are you seriously telling me there are epeople in the world who haven't seen httyd or Kung fu panda
Does anybody remember Ford gum? It was square, and only sold in vending machines in restaurants, and they were always sponsored by the local Kiwanis Club. The machines always dispensed two pieces, IIRC.
Commenting on the last one: I remember how Maggie Smith looked in Othello, playing Desdemona across from Laurence Olivier.
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