There Should Be A Word

There should be a word for the opposite of nostalgia. For that sense of well being that comes from looking back at terrible things in your past and knowing you are better off now. Hedonadeia or Adeiahedone would be my bastard Greek construction, pleasure from leaving. But that's just an awkward word thingy. Accomplishment isn't quite the same thing. Sometimes you look back and it isn't your own efforts that have fixed things, but everything else going on in the world. I had very little to do with it, but I can look back with pleasure that at least in America being gay isn't what it was in the 1980s.