When you realize you’re in “good days” the feeling is called bittersweet. Therefore one should make the most, as soon as you realize the time is bittersweet. This helps prevent regrets of “not doing enough” later. Like today, it’s not too late to make the most of your upcoming weekend.
I did enjoy living in the future before the dystopia set in. Good times.
Its not possible; good old days always exist as a retrospective of the past, you never experience the present with all the bad parts removed
This is why stoicism has the concept of prospective retrospection.
There have been a few distinct moments in my life where I understood that I was living my good ol days.
If you wake up on a rainy Monday morning and feel okay about going to work then you’re living your best life.
What if I don’t feel good about the idea of waking up?
Then go back to bed. Eventually you’ll get desperate enough to do something.
Oh, I get out of bed, because I have to go to work. That doesn’t mean I feel good about it.
Almost as if you should try to make some changes in your life.
It’s now, because every day after just gets a bit worse.
Rule of thumb: it will always get worse in some way, so you will always remember the past fondly, also because you usually tend to forget the bad parts.