Those were the days...

This is Namwan and Rasta's blog to liberate our writing skills. Every day we will do an exercise from "The Write-Brain Workbook". 


NAMWAN




Finish the story. Start with: Back in 1938, before...


Back in 1938, before we had the so-called "delights" of today, half of the total population of the world were not content with what they had. They desired a more sophisticated lifestyle involving new technology that can enable them to make their lives easier. And no, this does not apply to only 1938, but the desire is increasing every single year.

But now people want to go back to the mid 19th century (or even way back before that). Look at the main actor and his secret lover in "Midnight in Paris". They all yearn for the past, but there was one sentence that the lady said that made me thinking about this issue, as I too have a desire to have things the way it was before capitalism and globalization made everyone become consumer freaks.

This is what Paul said:

Nostalgia is denial - denial of the painful present... the name for this denial is golden age thinking - the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one ones living in - its a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present. 

Isn't it true? People living in the 1920s would like to time travel back to an earlier period, and so forth. We would always have a desire to bring back the past, whatever period we are in.

That speaking, Thailand in some 30 or 40 years back would be a marvelous place to live in. And now I'm so obsessed with the idea that I'm always looking to buy vintage clothes and accessories.

TAKE THE NEXT STEP

If there are 1,938 reasons NOT to write, name one reason TO write that outweighs them all:


To prove my existence and for people to remember me for what I do (a journalist from the Bangkok Post's business section).