What do you miss most of the late 90's-Early 00's.?

[TE]

I grew up during this era. For one, I feel sorry for kids nowadays growing up with the that comes out on television, the ty music they hear, and the "oh this is just xmas and new years again" cliche feeling. I come to think of it, nowadays, life just ing sucks. Along with the inevitable fact that life becomes boring as you get older (due to gain of knowledge and experiencing things you always wanted to experience), life sucks right now. I'm bored. IDK, any constructive and appropriate non-trollish thoughts out there ?

[silverblk mystix]

I grew up during this era. For one, I feel sorry for kids nowadays growing up with the that comes out on television, the ty music they hear, and the "oh this is just xmas and new years again" cliche feeling. I come to think of it, nowadays, life just ing sucks. Along with the inevitable fact that life becomes boring as you get older (due to gain of knowledge and experiencing things you always wanted to experience), life sucks right now. I'm bored. IDK, any constructive and appropriate non-trollish thoughts out there ?

Quite a few different topics here, but I got some thoughts for you.

#1) I personally miss the friends I had and the place I lived in the 90's (Southern California). And my getaway trips to Northern Cali were some of the most memorable times in my life.

But I am enjoying today as much as I enjoyed that time...

#2) The music/tv/popular culture of any decade or time frame are kind of relative...each person loves/hates their own thing...I work with people who play 80's music all day...and I personally want to stab someone with a in' pencil through the eye every time I hear an 80's song...but oh well...to each his own..
Later on in life...you may feel nostalgic about YOUR music...and some little prick will ridicule you and call you an old ....

#3)I think that your boredom is stemming from some false ideas in your mind.
What I mean is that you sort of implied that it is inevitable to become bored as you get older...I guess because you have already fulfilled a few thrills.
Well, I have to strongly disagree that boredom is inevitable.
The thinking/programming in your head is something that can be changed easier--than trying to re-arrange the planet to suit your mind and to prevent boredom.

Instead of trying to carpet the entire planet...just get a comfortable pair of shoes.

In other words...the present and the near future is a great time to work on your mind/programming to understand how one gets bored and how one sets themselves up for boredom by thinking it is necessary to chase thrills and chase things that you mistakenly believe will make you happy.

I cannot honestly remember being bored very often in my life.

I used to need a thousand things/thrills/toys/gadgets,etc... to keep me interested and fulfilled...

but now I only have a very few things ...but I learned to really enjoy,taste,feel, experience--everything completely...and I don't need a thousand things anymore....

As I have gotten older...I seem to find excitement in almost everything that I do...I have learned to enjoy each moment...and then let that moment go without clinging to it and ready to enjoy the next and the next....

Try working on your mind...it is fascinating what you will discover...boredom is something that you can understand...and when you begin to understand anything...it ceases to be a burden...

Good luck

[monosylab1k]

white kids wearing FUBU

[monosylab1k]

also, black kids wearing FUBU

[Nathan Explosion]

I saw an episode of Seinfeld for the first time in many, many months. Maybe even a year. I've seen that episode so many times, I knew what was coming long before it happened.

And it still made me laugh my ass off. I miss Seinfeld, that's for sure.

I would say I miss being able to come and go as I please, but then again, I enjoy my kids more than I could have possibly imagined when 10 years ago.

If anything, I get what you're saying about getting older and more knowledgeable though. While I think it's a good thing, being a naive teen isn't always a bad thing in the sense that it was much, much less stressful.

[RandomGuy]

Being in my late 20's and early 30's. Easy question.

[mrsmaalox]

I'm not one who wastes much time looking back; but I'm also curious enough that there's never been an opportunity to get bored with my life.

But for the 90's, my 3 kids were born in the mid to late 90's and I do miss how they were then.

[RandomGuy]

The economist did an interesting article on how happy people are as they get older.

The studies they did will surprise you.

The thread and link to that article can be found here:
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=168404

[RandomGuy]

I'm not one who wastes much time looking back; but I'm also curious enough that there's never been an opportunity to get bored with my life.

But for the 90's, my 3 kids were born in the mid to late 90's and I do miss how they were then.

I love having my kids little now, but look forward to all of the things I can teach them as they get older.

It's all good for me.

[mrsmaalox]

I love having my kids little now, but look forward to all of the things I can teach them as they get older.

It's all good for me.

I'll tell you what....it just gets more and more amazing with every year. It has been the most mind blowing experience of my life having them around---being a witness and participant in this adventure. And it is ALWAYS an adventure

[admiralsnackbar]

SilverBlk was more eloquent, but if you're bored, you need to find a way to un-bore yourself and try new things.

We all get that "nothing new under the sun" feeling (I used to get it a lot when I was 18... as if I knew anything then), and we all have a tendency to romanticize our youth, but both are more a symptom of hanging on to an out-grown definition of self than anything outside our skulls.

Cold off the presses, but you're not going to be here forever so you may as well entertain yourself in the meantime even if that means putting yourself out there and risking things. Get busy livin' or get busy dyin', as the man said.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Someone needs to watch OWN.

[Winehole23]

At any rate, boredom is under-appreciated.

[Nathan Explosion]

At any rate, boredom is under-appreciated.

As anyone who has kids, especially more than one, can attest, time is vastly under-appreciated.

A friend of mine was thinking of getting a second job on weekends to earn some extra cash, and I told him not to because since he's single, he doesn't appreciate how valuable time is. Get a job working on your two days off, thereby taking away your free time will get you reacquainted with that real quick.

I love my kids. My problem is that I don't have enough hours in the day to do everything I need to do.

So if there's one thing I do miss from my teen\early 20s years, it's just having time.

[desflood]

Join the Peace Corps.

[Das Texan]

I miss airport security of the late 90s.

[CuckingFunt]

Is there anything from the late-90s/early-00s that you don't still have access to? In terms of music/movies/TV, I mean. It's not as if any of those things have been lost to us forever.

The rest of it... yeah. If you're that bored at such a young age, you've really got to find some new interests. That's no one's fault but your own. I find new things to interest and engage me on a daily basis.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I miss airport security of the late 90s.

With some punctuation that could set off another thread.

But seriously, I prefer the groping they do now

[Spurminator]

To each his own, but in my opinion music and television are MUCH better today than in the late 90's/early 00's.

That era was a low point for music, frankly, unless you like stuff like Staind. Even the popular music out today is 10x better than the pop music of that time.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Are you a teenager?

[leemajors]

I missed it not being the early to mid 90s?

[PakiDan]

2 Words: Z Cavaricci

[Spurminator]

2 Words: Z Cavaricci

That was early 90's.

1991 to be exact.

I remember because I wore my first pair the very day they went out of style.

[Duff McCartney]

I don't know if I miss them but I recall fondly technology taking a larger grip of our lives around that time.

First time my mom and step-dad owned a cell phone circa 1999. The longing for high speed internet when all I had was dial up (AOL, Netzero) the fun and excitement of Yahoo chat rooms and meeting random people.The dot com bubble and the burst that followed. The birth and subsequent demise of Napster and all the songs that you could easily download for free.

I look back fondly on the late 90s and early 2000s....but the time I remember the most was 1999 to 2001.

[LnGrrrR]

I grew up during this era. For one, I feel sorry for kids nowadays growing up with the that comes out on television, the ty music they hear, and the "oh this is just xmas and new years again" cliche feeling. I come to think of it, nowadays, life just ing sucks. Along with the inevitable fact that life becomes boring as you get older (due to gain of knowledge and experiencing things you always wanted to experience), life sucks right now. I'm bored. IDK, any constructive and appropriate non-trollish thoughts out there ?

How old are you? Serious question.