Okay, I admit it: nostalgia makes us look back with a tendency to idealize. Childhood is—as we all know—the lost paradise we yearn for our whole lives. This doesn't mean, at all, that The past was always better.A statement especially true for those of us who were young children during the Franco regime.

Nostalgia is a profoundly human and universal feeling. Virtually everyone experiences nostalgia at some point in their lives. It's inevitable: as time passes, we change. And so do the people around us and the places we inhabit. Sometimes these changes are slow and only become apparent when one day you look back and find yourself longing for a world that no longer exists. Sometimes looking back can be comforting. Other times it hurts more. Especially when the changes are sudden and your world suddenly collapses.