That feeling.

[Babobobo]

I never have that feeling I used to get, of no worries or satisfaction ever. I always have this feeling in the back of my head, that I'm never going to be able to experience the things I used to, that everyone's going to go on and I can't stay a child anymore, my sibling will move out and my parents will grow old and be unable to walk, possibly even Alzheimer's. I can't be satisfied with my life, it's ticking so quickly, I miss the older days and it kills the fuck out of me that I can't relive it.

I'm going to get to a point where I'm stuck and left behind from everyone else, while my family is out in the world I'm wanting to relive the past. I hate moving on.

[steve1234]

I hate moving on too. I just wish I could have a stopwatch, where you can just keep starting and stopping time whenever you wanted, so you can take a rest, or take things slowly. But, I don't think that kind of stopwatch will ever be invented :D

I am 18, and i feel I have wasted my teenage years. I am going to university soon, and I am really not ready. I just want to go back to being a kid, where there were hardly any worries. I'm not really ready to stand on my own two feet.
My friends are mostly excited about university, and moving on from being a teenager, but I can't understand how they can be so eager to move on. They say that your teenage years are the best years in your life, but i really doubt this.

Also, I'm very nostalgic and stuck in the past. Most of the music I listen to is from the 1980s, and I seem to hate todays selfish shallow society. I think stupid things like 'it would have been better in the good old days', which makes me sound like an old person.

My advice is to stop thinking of the past, and think of the present and the future. I have started to do this more, although I have a long way to go.

[Art_dude]

The first step is knowing what the problem is, and you've demonstrated that - you need to move on.

Moving on is hard because we have attachment. Attachment is an addictive feeling we have towards a particular thing. It could be food, drugs, sex, or even in your case, memories or past events that you enjoyed. The issue however with enjoying the wonderful life you've been given is the aftermath of wanting to relive it. When we go through an uncomfortable phase in our life, when change is happening all around us, it's easy to look back to times when things were more secure, and long for re-experiencing it. However the obvious issue soon arises that past memories not only don't help us in the present moment, but are not substantial enough to lead to any lasting happiness. If that were the case we would just sit all day watching home movies in our head on loop. The only option is to move on and adjust to this new phase of our life.

And it's difficult - it's difficult to let go of the past, and it's difficult to then adjust to your new present. But there's a solution: stop your craving of the past, and realize the happiness you can find in the present. A lot of people will say it's bad to dwell on something you can't relive, but I say that its a good reminder of why our craving and attachment of the past is only hurting us. Go ahead and reflect on the past. Test it with your mind, prove to yourself that it is illusory and only leading to more suffering. When you realize how the past cripples you, it's far easier to find the solution to working with the present.