Journal Prompts: Memories & Nostalgia

What are your favourite childhood memories?

What are your least favourite memories? Has time exaggerated or lessened the feelings you have about them?

What memories have reached a level of fond nostalgia? Why? What factors idealized them in your mind?

Do you think good memories are invariably viewed with rose-coloured glasses? Or can they actually be seen as wonderful as you remember them?

Do you think other people have a role in shaping your memories and nostalgia?

What images/songs/etc. give you a nostalgic feeling?

Do you find yourself idealizing even mediocre or bad times in your life? How? Why or why not?

What is a funny story that makes you laugh every time?

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