Good old days or just old days?

Were the good old days that good or do we just think they were that good?

Probably some of both.

Recently I got thinking that the reason that we talk and think about the good old days is because we know the outcome of the events that we went through in the past. The events with the good outcomes. And it is easier to look back and think about them. I guess that's why we call them the good old days.

We don't seem to look back fondly on the bad events. But hopefully we look back at the bad events we went through and see the lessons we learned so we don't continue to repeat those events.

Good or bad we went through them and we will continue to have good and bad days. In the book of James we get the advice to count them all joy. Difficult advice to accept but truthful none the less.