Memories

Do we all idealize our childhood or early adulthood? Why do so many people think that things were better "back then" or say things such as "those were the days"?

Personally, I am not sure what good it does to think back to better times. And I get a bit tired of people saying how awful life is nowadays. If it's so awful, why don't we do something about it? All times and places have their problems; it isn't helpful to think that the grass was greener, to use a tired cliché, in a previous era.

--Curly