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When I was a kid, the year 2020 was a date in science fiction novels. But here we are in the future\u2014and yet remakes, reboots, and revivals are still wildly popular across all forms of entertainment media. There\u2019s even a convention called NostalgiaCon Ultimate 80s Reunion now running in its second year and growing in attendance.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019m an old school Star Wars fan, it was the original films that captured my imagination and symbolize my childhood. Recently, The Mandalorian<\/em> on Disney+ has recaptured the magic of those original stories and has critics calling it the best Star Wars yet.<\/p>\n

Other shows like Stranger Things<\/em> and the upcoming Wonder Woman<\/em> sequel are transporting us back in time, and audiences seem to be loving it. Netflix documentaries such as The Toys that Made Us <\/em>share the behind-the-scenes drama of an industry we grew up with. The list of nostalgia-driven entertainment is endless.<\/p>\n

So why are we stuck in the past? Why is retro so cool? My parents said don\u2019t dwell on the past. Focus on the future.<\/p>\n

As an educator, I spend most of my time preparing students for the road ahead. Even Star Wars\u2019 esteemed First Order leader Kylo Ren said, \u201cLet the past die. Kill it if you have to. That\u2019s the only way to become what you were meant to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

A stroll down memory lane is good medicine, just like mom\u2019s old cooking, rich and savory and always making you feel better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unsurprisingly, there\u2019s a ton of research on nostalgia, and if you can imagine the good old days of actually stepping foot in a library, then go one step farther and picture rows of shelves buckling under the weight of this work. Suffice it to say that thousands of researchers (or at least four whose articles I read) agree that nostalgia can boost creativity, evoke inspiration, increase optimism, and even combat loneliness, boredom and anxiety.<\/p>\n

Nostalgic memories shared by couples and friends bring them closer. Apparently, a stroll down memory lane is good medicine, just like mom\u2019s old cooking, rich and savory and always making you feel better.<\/p>\n

So this is why we cling to our old clothes, photos, record albums, jewelry, coins, baseball cards, and most importantly in my case, Star Wars action figures. These are the talismans of our youth, the magical objects that remind us we are still the kids who owned them way back when. And sure, they are valuable and we could sell them for a profit, but sometimes you can\u2019t put a price on your past.<\/p>\n

In an article for The New Yorker<\/em> entitled \u201cThe True Meaning of Nostalgia,\u201d Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon defines the feeling as something that \u201covercomes you when some minor vanished beauty of the world is momentarily restored.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chabon alludes to a Latin phrase sic transit gloria mundi<\/em>: thus passeth the glory of the world. Consequently, every time I dust off and admire my original Star Wars figures from the 1970s, I am 12 again. My parents are still married. When I grow up, I will be Luke Skywalker.<\/p>\n

My action figures\u2014or your photos or films or songs\u2014help you recall the wonders of your half-remembered, half-imagined childhood. You need them because you\u2019re afraid to lose yourself to the future. And we\u2019re reminded of that secret when we play with our old Legos or buy new ones for our children\u2014but we<\/em> do most of the playing.<\/p>\n

This is all OK. We\u2019re not slackers stuck in the past. In fact, photos or songs or other objects from tougher times are important to remind us how we overcame that adversity. In this case, nostalgia becomes a defense mechanism to reassure us that those painful moments are only temporary. The past can, indeed, coexist with the present and give us courage to face the future.<\/p>\n

But beware the dark side. Collecting pieces of nostalgia can turn into an obsession, into hoarding, a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an adrenaline rush I get when I\u2019m able to score a hard-to-find action figure and add it to my collection, but if I take it too far and start down the dark path, forever will it dominate my destiny. I don\u2019t want to wind up half-man, half-machine wearing a breathing mask\u2014because that\u2019s what my wife will do to me if I blow our life savings on little pieces of plastic.<\/p>\n

Nostalgia is a powerful force. It\u2019s the house we grew up in, the toys we played with, and the TV shows we watched. It\u2019s the smell of hot dogs cooking on a barbecue grill and that song your mom sang before tucking you in at night. It\u2019s everything we were, everything we still are, if only we remember.<\/p>\n

And so a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was a little boy playing with Star Wars figures. And now, all these years later, I\u2019m still knocking on your door and asking, \u201cYou wanna come out and play?\u201d<\/p>\n

Peter Telep<\/em><\/strong> is a senior instructor in UCF\u2019s Department of English. He can be reached at <\/em>Peter.Telep@ucf.edu<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0UCF Forum<\/strong>\u00a0is a weekly series of opinion columns from faculty, staff and students who serve on a panel for a year. A new column is posted each Wednesday on <\/em>UCF Today<\/em><\/a> and then broadcast on WUCF-FM (89.9) between 7:50 and 8 a.m. Sunday. <\/em>(A podcast of this column is available on the radio station\u2019s website.<\/em><\/a>) Opinions expressed are those of the columnists, and are not necessarily shared by the University of Central Florida.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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