In the final episode of the T.V. show The Office, the character Andy Bernard says, “I wish there was a way to know when you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them.”

It’s a profound statement. And it’s interesting, because Andy was one of the more tragic characters on the show. In the span of eight years he was cheated on, dumped, fired, found out his family was involved in the slave trade, and humiliated himself on a reality T.V. show.

The “good old days” are sometimes riddled with not so good days. But we tend to remember the good parts more than the not so good parts. Especially the good parts that are no longer part of our life—usually certain people.

It always seems like the good old days are in the past, but today is the good old days too—the new good old days. There’s something great about our lives right now that we’ll one day miss.