back to the 90s?
Somehow I feel like the 90s are back. It might be due to the fact that I keep hearing nirvana and 2pac everywhere I go. Or is it because baggy jeans and leg-warmers are coming back. (or was leg-warmers more 80s? hm… I’m thinking of buffalo shoes combined with leggies,… leg-warmers every decade?!) .. hm..disturbing in a way. anyways.
There is something in the air, and I think it must be some sort of nostalgia. We are growing up, we are becoming adults, people around us seem to become more and more established. Kids, marriage, owning their own appartements…. My impression is, that somewhere along the line, people start to look backwards, instead of forward. Why? Cause the future is SCARY! (as you might have figured by now, this is all a part of my odd new-found exsitential crisis). If something is scary, frightening, uncertain, one tends to look back towards the safe and known. The good old days when your biggest worry was that some guy would find out that you liked him, or what to wear on the class-picture. And for our generation (those of you under 30! 
) , I guess this safeness is felt by the sound of nirvana, 2pac and all that comes with.. Ah… the sight of Buffalo shoues! I can just feel the warmth of my youth! OH.. Wait… horrid memories of junior high! argh! The infamous 14 years old! take the bad memories away! far far away! …
We want to stay in our youth, it only normal I guess. Is it because we are afraid? Do we not want to grow up at all? Are we not a strong generation?
Or is it more an urge to bring the best from our past in to our present and future? Isn’t that really what post-modernism is all about? The eclectic fusion vibes of past and future at once?
I must honestly say I don’t know. Sometimes, when I talk to people, it seems as if they are just stuck in the 90’s. With no way out, no emergency exit. And sometimes I guess I wish I could, but then again, with so many things happening in the 2000ds to come… who would want to miss that!
Therefore, I have decided to embrace my future. Take it in with open arms. That doesn’t mean that I will forget Nirvana, I never will, but it means that I am now ready to face my future head on! I’m not afraid! I’ve shaken of the 90’s… now lets see what lies ahead!
