I love youtube.
Just about the time I give up on humanity, I can drop by the website and remind myself there were better days and they’ll likely be better days ahead. I remember pretending to hate pop music like Coolio but I wouldn’t change the channel when he came on the radio or MTV.
It is exactly that reason I will pull up an old cheesy video off youtube. It reminds me of a simpler time when my biggest challenge was earning enough money for some gas, food and smokes. It was a time when you looked forward to going to college. Back then you didn’t have to worry about getting shot in class, because it just didn’t happen. At least not at college.
Sure the world wasn’t perfect. It never has been. It just seems like ever year brings a little more violence, the ends get a little harder to make meet, the world becomes a little less stable and the culture moves on leaving us teens of the 90s in the dust. MTV is chocked full of awful reality shows and the music on pop radio is mostly some guy grunting about what a stud he is over some Pro Tools generated beat. At least our rapper’s sample real actual music.
I’ll stop waxing nostalgic for now, but I do sometimes miss those days. They’ll never come back. Maybe that is the curse of youth. You don’t realize what a good time you’re having until it is too late. In a dozen years some guy will probably look back fondly on Nickelback and “The Fairly Oddparents”, but I doubt it.
Just about the time I give up on humanity, I can drop by the website and remind myself there were better days and they’ll likely be better days ahead. I remember pretending to hate pop music like Coolio but I wouldn’t change the channel when he came on the radio or MTV.
It is exactly that reason I will pull up an old cheesy video off youtube. It reminds me of a simpler time when my biggest challenge was earning enough money for some gas, food and smokes. It was a time when you looked forward to going to college. Back then you didn’t have to worry about getting shot in class, because it just didn’t happen. At least not at college.
Sure the world wasn’t perfect. It never has been. It just seems like ever year brings a little more violence, the ends get a little harder to make meet, the world becomes a little less stable and the culture moves on leaving us teens of the 90s in the dust. MTV is chocked full of awful reality shows and the music on pop radio is mostly some guy grunting about what a stud he is over some Pro Tools generated beat. At least our rapper’s sample real actual music.
I’ll stop waxing nostalgic for now, but I do sometimes miss those days. They’ll never come back. Maybe that is the curse of youth. You don’t realize what a good time you’re having until it is too late. In a dozen years some guy will probably look back fondly on Nickelback and “The Fairly Oddparents”, but I doubt it.
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