I'm guilty of wearing the old rose tinted glasses at times. I listen to mostly old school metal, I'm a sucker for goofy 70s-90's B-movies, and I have a He-Man and Skeletor figure sitting here on my shelf.
But since I've gotten sober I spend less time looking back on the past and thinking how cool it would be to go back to then. I think what it is it's not so much we want to go back and relive those days but it's the feeling of experiencing a lot of lifes firsts for the first time when everything was new and to be able to go through it knowing everything that you know now.