Nostalgia is defined as an emotion that romanticizes bittersweet feelings brought on by the familiarity of remembering past events, places, or people. The methods included three conditions and scales that took baseline, experimental, and personality measures on nostalgia and gratitude. Participants also self-reported emotions and wrote a story as a reaction to a photo. The hypotheses ultimately stated that nostalgia and gratitude influence a positive well being and presence of meaning of life.