For myself I often find people downplay past events to "rose-tinted glasses" and "nostalgia" but I have yet to experience a situation where that was true to me. All of the same things I enjoyed then, I enjoy and appreciate just as much, if not more, now many years removed from them. If anything it appears that people, for whatever reason, make it a particular point to try and downplay those attachments of others to the past while strongly clinging to what is new and currently popular. Those same people often being the first and foremost to eschew those things they once held to strongly, with a faddish mindset instead pervading.