118 - The Good Old Days

The Graffiti Machine

On my way to the shop yesterday, I was thinking about the 'good old days'. It was sparked when I did a style of graffiti that I hadn't done in close to 30 years. The 70+ comments on the piece on Instagram got me thinking about things like nostalgia and hanging onto the past. Then a famous and profound quote came to mind: "I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve left them”. This was from the American version of the TV show The Office. The way I see it is, there are a couple ways to look at things like this. We can look back on those days and wish we could be back there. Or, we can realize we're actually in the 'good old days' right now and we always are. No matter what we're dealing with currently, there may come a time where we look back on this time with the same nostalgia. Not only that, but we have the control to make the time we're living in now something memorable.