Do Only 90s Kids Remember The 90s?

Do you remember Dexter’s Laboratory? Do you remember the Nintendo N64? Powerpuff Girls? Dragonball Z? Well then, you must have been born in the early 90s, because only 90s kids remember the 90s, right? If you had taken a look around the room just now, you would have noticed that when I made that ludicrous statement, no one was shocked. Why is that? It is because we have heard the same statement made more times than we can remember. You’ve heard that only 90s kids remember the 90s everywhere. On Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit, your friends preach it, you may even believe it. Everywhere. Nostalgia is rampant in our age and we are being exposed to it more and more and more. Don’t get me wrong, nostalgia isn’t entirely a bad thing. In fact, a small amount of reminiscence is a healer. However, it is when one overindulges in nostalgia that they have made a fatal blow to the progression of their life. …show more content…
It is the idea of a better tomorrow. The fundamentals of nostalgia are the exact opposite of this. During a state of nostalgia we are not just thinking of the past, we are longing to return to it. It is in this state that we are unaware of the present, we are inattentive to the future, and we just let life pass by. Think about it. What is it that we do in a state of nostalgia? We sit around and we just recall memories. The past was great. We had all this stuff that we don’t have now. Why can’t the future be like the past? After all this time spent, what happens? What have we accomplished? Nothing. We have only wasted time sitting around trapped in these thoughts. This lack of concern for anything but the past stops the thinking process. We are left without the ability to formulate new thoughts, only to recollect past ones. One can say that it leaves us serving no more purpose than a diary. In fact it leaves us less than a