Nostalgia

Well...that new year's resolution really didn't last, lol. 

Anyway, I have been feeling nostalgic lately, especially for the days of physical media and connection. I have been buying some CDS again, but I still find myself gravitating towards online music streaming by habit. 

I don't think this feeling is being helped by all the 2000s/2010s culture being romanticized. But I guess it's all part of the cycle, since I remember my classmates and I romanticizing the 90s and how much better it must have been then too. 

I'm also getting annoyed with how everything has to be a subscription now, why can't I just buy something once and own it? Seeing how media has gone from cable with bundles to a few streaming apps back to bundles again is a bit disheartening, but maybe that's just me being pessimistic. 

on the flip side, this summer has been relatively mild in my corner of the world, I need to acknowledge the good things and not just the bad (I have always had a hard time doing that) otherwise I'm just yelling into the void.