Sometimes I wish I was born in another decade. That I hadn’t been a kid but a young adult in the nineties. Generation X seems to have had more fun than us from generation Y. I’m sure the nineties wasn’t as fantastic as I remember it to be. As I said in a previous entry, it seems so wonderful now just because it’s over. And probably because the nineties is my childhood. I started first grade in 1990 and graduated from junior high in 1999. I count those years as my childhood. In 1999 I turned sixteen and from that age I feel that I was more of a young adult than a child. So those ten years from 1990-1999 holds all my childhood memories since I was very little in the eighties and don’t remember much of my earliest years. I don’t think this century is remarkable in any way. I look back at my high school time (1999-2002) and think about people I miss and things we did which I miss but I don’t miss the time in itself. I guess that’s because things haven’t changed enough yet for me to miss what was back then. The nineties on the other hand feels like a very different time. It was a very different time.

I smile when I think about how funny we dressed. The brightly coloured tights and bicycle pants, the scrunchies and poofy bangs, the flannel shirts, vests, polo sweaters and platform shoes. And all that sports wear! Back in 1996 everyone dressed like they were on their way to the gym. Adidas pants, Fruit of the loom t-shirts and Champion sweaters. Looking through old yearbooks from junior high almost everyone is wearing sports clothes on the photos. WHAT were we thinking?! I’d never leave my apartment dressed like that! Unless I was actually engaging in a actual sport activity (NOT likely!). And the hair. I remember that ALL girls had a bob parted in the middle. Exactly like my current hairstyle! I’m ten years late though because back then I had long hair.

The music was better in the nineties. Or rather the popular music was better than now. I never ever listen to the radio or watch MTV because I hate 90% of what’s on there. I hate RnB, hip hop and boring mainstream pop like Britney and Madonna. And I just can’t stand the whole emo trend. There’s a lot of good bands around but they’re not the ones given much attention in mainstream media. Back in the nineties the popular music was good. At least a lot of it. RnB and hip hop hadn’t taken over yet. God how I can’t stand that music! That trend has been going on waaaay too long now! Please go away.

TV was also better in the nineties. I barely ever watch tv nowadays. There’s a couple of shows which I enjoy but they’re not many. My computer on the other hand is full of tv-series from the nineties. I spent a large part of this winter watching all nine seasons of “The X-files”. Today I’ve been watching a couple of episodes of “My So-called life”. I came to think about that show yesterday when I realized my hair looks like Claire Danes did in that show and since I haven’t watched the show in a year or so I decided it was time to see it again. That’s actually what brought back all fond memories of the trends of the nineties.

I can’t say that I liked the fashion of that time better than the current fashion though. We dressed pretty horrible. The only cool fashion of the nineties was grunge. Love it! Some days I look like someone from a Seattle rock concert in 1992 dressed in my trashed jeans, converse and army jacket. I can be quite a slacker. It’s funny to think that looking like that actually was fashionable some fifteen years ago.

God I feel so old when I think about my childhood! So much has changed and kids of today probably think everything that I was used to when I was their age is very old fashioned. The world is changing so fast. Sometimes I just can’t get that I’m actually turning twenty-five in two months. Am I not supposed to be more… grown up? I don’t know. It’s just weird thinking about the fact that I’ll be thirty in five years. I mean, thirty! That’s definitely grown up! I used to think thirty was old but now I don’t know. I’m there in five years and I have a whole bunch of friends who are in their thirties. I even have friends who have kids. When did we become so grown up? I remember when we all lived with our parents. Just a couple of years ago I barely knew anyone who lived on their own but now I barely know anyone who don’t. I’m definitely not a kid anymore. Not even a teenager and pretty soon not even close to being a teenager. And In a couple of years I’m not even amongst the “young” people anymore. Not that I feel old and I probably won’t in ten years either. Growing up and getting older is exciting though. I’d never want to be a teenager again. The older you get the more seriously people take you and the older you get the more you learn. I can handle life and people so much better now than ten years ago and I know so much more about everything. The teenage years are spent trying to figure out who you are and what you want to do with your life. I’m done with that. I know who I am and I know what to do with my life. I’ve changed SO much in the past ten years. I was a completely different person ten years ago. When I think about who I was back in 1998 I can barely understand that was actually me. Of course I’m still the same person but I’ve evolved, so to speak.

Wow this turned into quite a lenghty blog post. When I started writing I thought I’d just write a quick and short post but it’s easy to get stuck, finding more and more things to write about.

I’m going to continue watching “My So-called life” now and I should probably go to bed soon. Tomorrow I’m going to my parents to celebrate mother’s day.