Nostalgic

By definition, nostalgia is “a mixed feeling of happiness, sadness, and longing when recalling a person, place, or event from the past, or the past in general”. But if you think about the word, it’s amazing how it can have two opposite meanings combined.

Happiness: “feeling or showing pleasure, contentment, or joy”
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Sadness: “feeling or showing unhappiness, grief, or sorrow”

Even though, language has been around for thousands of years, it’s amazing how it still lacks expressive terms of how a complex human being feels or acts. Nostalgic is a step-up for mankind never the less.

The existing of the two opposite feelings together highlights how complex a person can be, and life’s circumstances can make him feel. If a person was asked: How are you? He or she replies: good or bad (even though good is a grammatically wrong answer.