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haha, that reminds me of my ENFP cousin. She gets nostalgic for 60's and 70's music and culture which she was not alive for either, though she often wishes she had been. She was born in 1984.Actually I know an ISTJ who gets nostalgic for things he doesn't even remember or wasn't alive for. It's quite bizarre... he was born in the mid-60's so he was too young to really remember or participate in the hippie movements and by the time he was at college it was late 70's, early 80's punk time. But he has this graet fondness for music of the 50's and 60's and seems to index and interpolate and entire identity and mindset that he associates with that music so that if he hears the intro to say, "Put A Spell On You" by Nina Simone, he writhes and sighs in his chair in an apparent ecstacy of imaginary remembrance of all the things he associates with it, re-associating himself with those things and revelling in it.
It's really quite curious.
I am an ambiguous type and very keen to nostalgic-yze most things about my life, yes even the moments when things were down. I like to think I do this because it puts my present and future into perspective --I gain more hope and a sense of peace because I know I have already "been through worse before" and things have a way of "getting better" (which induces me to go into nostalgia-mode about the happy times in life).
I'm often hit with nostalgia at the most random moments, often sparked by a song clip, passing by a certain street, seeing how birds interact with each other in nature, really... anything triggers it!