This weekend has been one of nostalgia and remembering the cool stuff from my youth. I was born in 1969, my childhood was in the 1970s and I came of age in the 1980s. As a teenager (1982-1988) MTV was an influence on me as well as other media and culture of the era. Watching music videos this weekend has been great. Enjoying junk food of the era was fun.
It’s always interesting to look at older things with older eyes and current sensibilities. Looking back to what was helps us all appreciate where we have been and hopefully where we are going next. This blog is a good thing about the present.
I can say that there is a comfort in remembering the past to deal with a difficult today. Everyone should do that. Granted, not everyone has warm fuzzies about the past. Whatever one can do to help cope with what we are going through now is something I suggest. Nostalgia has its place, but like a mountaintop we cannot live in that space for very long, unfortunately.
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Love my MTV! I can hear them signing it!
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As the saying goes, “nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.”
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The most important thing from ‘back then’ was how often we moved forward. We weren’t focused on going backwards to greatness, we went toward new things and experiences. Like pop rocks with soda, like taking off the stickers on a rubik’s cube to ‘fix it’, like loving awesome songs that today make us cringe (stalker tune, Private Eyes), and like looking at how Star Wars A New Hope was made and how it changed movies forever. Or Jaws…the movie that made people terrified of the water when the ‘main character’ wasn’t even seen for over an hour! (note: one associate from days gone by said their class watched it in a pool in the dark!)
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