The easiest way to add firsts to your life is to become invested in those of someone else, have kids. Nostalgia is only futile and self destructive because it is a sublimated desire to give your own children the life you want them to have. FirstsThe first set of new firsts that children give you are those you don’t remember from your own life, smiles, laughs, food, words, steps, first rain, first creek. Of all the experiences that children renew, traditions are renewed the most. All of these holidays are in essence a celebration of childhood, and children let you see them all for the first time again.