You know what? The Naughties are coming to an end! That’s right 2010 is right around the corner. Frankly, yeah. I’m dang tired of this decade. It’s been some new damned thing every year. And I haven’t liked much of it. Buildings falling, bubbles bursting, cities washing away, super viruses, melting glaciers, and people just going flat-out out of control. And if decades have characters, I don’t think this one’s going down in the books as one of the more likable ones.
Maybe we should be making a “new decade resolution” and just agree that there are some things we just need to leave behind in the 00s. Like the fact that we lost track of the fact that Gordon Gecko’s “Greed is good” was meant ironically. Or the fact that even if you can afford it, $15,000 really is too much to pay for a purse. Or maybe there really is such thing as too much bling, and Over the Top is just over the top. Or if you need an SUV to carry all of your kid’s sports equipment, maybe your kid is playing too many sports. Or that it’s okay to grow up, and you can have fun as an adult too. Or maybe porn stars and strippers really shouldn’t be fashion role models. Or it’s okay to not get something you want. Or that polite is not a synonym “uptight.” Or that the cell phone is not a life support system; you can put it down. Or maybe “keeping it real” just ends up being just as fake.
Everybody seems to kind of go into a new decade with a new vision, and a disdain for that’s “so last decade.” I’d really like to think we’re all gonna blink on January the 1st, and think, “Wow, did that really just happen?” And we’ll wake up out of whatever fever dream we’ve been living the last 10 years. I don’t know what the Teens are going to look like. But, jeez. We can do better than this.
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You are sooo right. Now, can we take off a decade from our ages?
Yes. Unless we can figure out a way to make it 2.
I'll be happy with 1 decade off my age. I really don't want to me 20 again.
That's fair. If I was going to be 20 again, however, I'd certainly be a hell of a lot better at it the second time. Youth wasted on the young, as they say. I spent a lot of time worrying about things that I figured out later just didn't matter.
Didn't we all...
I certainly wouldn't want to be 20 now. I wouldn't want to think this past decade is "normal" - not that the 90s were such a great decade either. At least we didn't have Speidi as our "role models" and no Jon & Kate either.
The 90s at least had great tunes. And we had cell phones, but thought they were great "in case of an emergency." And the Rachel haircut did get annoying, but it did look good on most women. The sitcoms were pretty good too. And there was grunge. Loved the grunge. In retrospect, the 90s weren't so bad. Entirely Speidi free is not to be underrated.
I would have looked terrible in the Rachel. Gosh, I looked bad enough with the Farrah, the Dorothy Hamil, and the Olivia Newton John. I'm sticking with my own hair!
We did have the original 90210 and Melrose, so that speaks for something too... :) We were ORIGINALS!
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