Nostalgia used to be an expensive emotion, but it doesn't seem that way anymore. Not only have smartphones become cheaper, but the photos, memories, and notes that get stored in our iCloud, Google Photos (or Picasso if you were old fashioned like me), and Dropbox have collectively brought down the price we put on memories as a generation. Long before smartphones and cameras were ubiquitous, photographs were reserved for special occasions and stored in well-designed photo albums. These albums would occupy a special place in our homes - typically in a loft ( maaliyu being the colloquial word) , where everything else was stored. This is where they stayed unless there was a special life event, and more often than not, it wasn't a happy event. It may be a child moving away from home for college or work, or a family member passing away. There was value - intrinsic and extrinsic in these memories that we sought. Nostalgia made us feel like the past was better than we remembered...