A few years ago I watched the movie "The perks of being a wallflower" and it struck me hard, the nostalgia of those days. I was living the contrary then, and I was not happy. I had cut my freedom short too soon, and was longing to get some back. I did get it, but only through causing quite the destruction. Not the best way either.
For me it was lying on the grass after taking a bath in the lake at 4am, when coming back from a party, and watch the sun come up again. Never to forget.
We do tend to cause mayhem sometimes in the search for our peace, which was there all along! Nostalgia can bite, but we learn to fully inhabit the present as we know it won't be too long before we will miss this moment too!!! So many good memories - like you lying in the grass - we are lucky to have, and the trick is to keep making them. Perhaps not with the intensity we did as we grew up, but still...
I make different ones here. Lying below the trees in Intag, sipping beer, with Ellie by my side. Building sand castles with Lily at the beach. There will be a time that I look back at those the same way I do to lying in the grass.