The 90’s Nostalgia

 

If you are a 90’s kid like me, you will pretty much agree that the 90’s nostalgia is strong. We can still hear all the songs and the ads in our head and recite them word for word. Every time we hear some song play from the 90’s we will only come to one conclusion that the 90’s was the best era; the best decade and there can never be anything like the 90’s again.

I can still remember my father blasting “Lambada” on our stereos; it filled the house. Songs by Bob Marley were another favorite of his. If someone says the line: “Tell me Why” I just have to follow it with “Ain’t nothing but a heartache”, still. I loved the candy ring you could wear on your finger and you sucked on it as you went about your way. I love that we listened to songs on cassette plays and had to rewind using a pencil. I loved that my parents took pictures and videos of me on this big camera and video camera that used film roll. There were much better cartoon series on television I loved that we sung the national anthem at the school assembly every morning and we discussed movies and series at toys at school. The roads were cleaner, there were less people. Initially I thought people thought 90’s were the best era because of the simple music and the innocence but eventually I realized we all miss our innocence. People were left with the power of imagination and creativity to spend time. The 90’s was a great era indeed, but I miss the simple times, the innocence and my childhood; that is what the 90’s reminds me the most of. And it made me wonder.

Is it really the 90’s that we miss or is the simple innocence of our childhood? Would we have felt the same way had we been born in another decade? While the 90’s has been the nostalgic era for many because it was the last decade before technology took over Gen Z must feel the same way about the 2000s decade and the 2010’s.