Before we begin, I’m going to make one request: play Drake’s One Dance in the background as you read this. It’s the only soundtrack that can truly set the scene for the time warp we’re about to embark on, rewinding all the way back to 2016. Don’t worry, I’m not about to subject you to a slideshow of my own decade-old memories. Having just turned 18 at the time, I have very few photos that exist outside of sticky-floored nightclubs. But I am going to explore why, collectively, we seem so drawn to the past.
“There are so many studies that preach psychologically we always look back on the past with coloured glasses, and we always find the past to be maybe better than our present,” shares fashion and beauty psychologist and author Shakaila Forbes-Bell.
