Nostalgia

On Wiktionary the definition is different--"From New Latin nostalgia, coined by Johannes Hofer in 1688 from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”), calquing German Heimweh. Ancient Greek *νοσταλγία (*nostalgía) is unattested. Transferred sense probably influenced by French nostalgie, especially in literature."

Here is a short defense of nostalgia in my generation specifically.

"Romanticizing the past isn’t a trend for Gen Z, it’s survival. We’ve come of age in a constant state of crisis: economic downturn, a global pandemic, the loneliness epidemic, the fall of Roe v. Wade and a climate catastrophe that will have bigger consequences for us and our children than anyone else."