The Ninety’s Nostalgia

Let’s hold up our champagne glasses and clink to the 90’s once again. Let’s live it today.

To the narrow lanes where we would chalk our superheroes on the brick walls and lonely roads and where little girls brought their dollies to make-believe, fancy China dinner parties, where hopscotch was a craze and playing hide and seek, two children found undiscovered, secreted new neighborhoods, where that young boy would kiss the girl before anyone found out and then run away.

Today, we text unlimitedly, wall obsessively, tweet conceitedly yet once the only tweet we knew was of Tweety bird, and where striking yellow walkmans were the center of attention. It was a simplistic, satisfying generation with the tunes of Spice Girls and toons of Johnny Bravo.

Stores used to be filled with hot wheels, skateboards, Tamagotchi, Furby and Pogs. Sideburns and shoelace hairclips tracked their way with fire. Beverly Hills 90210 was the drama in every household and Seinfeld, the absurdity.

Cartoons were most nonsensical, hilarious and compulsory where RugRats, Pinky & the Brain, Dexter, The Flintstones ruled the prime time. We wanted Jumanji in our homes too and tailored great life lessons from The Lion King. The Nokia 3310 and the simple game of Snake was the coolest thing a kid would be showing off to. Paddling pools in the summer, Legos inside homes, beanie babies in every shelf, that was how simple happiness was.

The grooves to Mambo no 5, where we’d be secretly be thrilled to hear our name, and just one more round of “Hit me baby, one more time!” Goosebumps and Matilda were on the best sellers when reading was the favorite pastime, the enjoyed free-time and the adored time off!

That was the 90’s. A Rubik’s cube of Disneyland, action figures , jenga blocks, Pokemon, BackStreet Boys, floppy disks, and everybody’s beloved Macarena!