Arcade Fire did a good job capturing this wistfulness in "We Used to Wait" from 2010. Recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs11Bp1RkpU
Waiting has the side effect of making the perception of time go by slower.
I remember how when first taking digital photos around 2010 I noticed that I remembered very little and time seemed to fly by because I was looking at a screen the whole time (on the back of a camera).
And today we're all looking at bigger screens all the time in every place and have more photos than ever. And time seems to go by faster.
That, as well age. That does it too.
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/
Because the chrome experiment was my first exposure to the song, I'll occasionally find myself walking home in the middle of the night, and will play the song on my phone speaker.