We all create stories for ourselves. There was nothing inherently good or bad about your school , college or your previous workplace. The difference between your expectations and your experiences formed a narrative. Over the years , this narrative got oversimplified into “good” or “bad”.
We hold on to what has passed because of the simple reasons that what has passed , may or may not come again and that challenges will only grow in future.
Hence we reminisce about “simpler” times which were not so simple when we were living them.

If you go back to your school or college, the memories will come back to you and with that a bitter-sweet feeling of nostalgia.
But it is not the true story , your memories have tampered with time , you even have some fake memories which you might have imagined.

Nostalgia is a good feeling because you remember a time which is perfect in imagination but is far from what really was.

We all know that. But we are ready to suspend our judgments – for old times’ sake!