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The Lies of Nostalgia
December 28, 2025
Life feels unbearingly sickening now,
That once-vigorous heart, now beating monotonously.
In those memories of nostalgia, I drown.
To turn back time is something I now wish for persistently.
A time when the warm heart could be felt,
Even in the piercing winter.
Back, when in a place of no worries, I dwelt,
Where feelings weren’t sinister.
It is all a lie, unwanted memories hidden,
A joyful facade of flowery reminiscence.
The life I have now is the life I had back then,
An ill-fated existence.
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My work explores the space where emotion and cognition intersect, focusing on how the mind reshapes memory to endure emotional pain. Nostalgia appears warm and comforting, yet it often deepens despair by masking what was once difficult or incomplete. Rather than fabricating happiness, the mind suppresses pain, preserving only selective fragments that feel safe to revisit. Through The Lies of Nostalgia, I wish to reveal how our belief in a “better past” is not because it's the truth, but by the memories we choose to keep.