"It's only human for us to want to keep a box of memories and pictures and things, and open them back up to have transport us to that time when they were taken. 

 But when we do that, we invest our emotional energy in the past, and prevent ourselves from being truly immersed in the present. I think that's why people get old - they forget how to be young because they have become nostalgic about their youth.

 The past shackles us.

 And living in the present means letting go of the past; not just the bad, but the good as well.

Nostalgia is the failure of true emotion."

- Gabe Saporta