I Love the 80's and 90's

I'm sitting here watching I Love the 80s on VH1 and I just realized that I'm getting old. I don't really care that I'm getting old, but it just hit me how old I actually am. Now to a forty year old, I'm just a baby, but to the little high school kids that I have to push out of my way on the subway, at 28 I'm like a senior citizen.

You don't realize how old you are until you find yourself being shocked at how old the people on TV are. I was watching something the other day, can't remember what it was, and they flashed this lady's age. I thought to myself, "Damn she looks good for thirty. I thought she was like my age." Then I remembered...I'll be 29 in a few months. She is my age. Another weird thing is realizing that your memories live outside of time. I was like eight or nine when Jordan got his first ring. Back then he looked like any other adult...old. I'm the same age now that he was back then, but I think of myself as like 22 or something. It's weird and hard to explain.

Even stranger is when you see people that you think are your age (because they look young) and you learn that they are like five or six years younger than you and then you realize, "Hey, maybe I don't look that young after all." So with all of this in mind, I still don't care about getting older. I hope to add so many numbers to my age that they run out of wax for the birthday candles. I just find it weird when I realize that a person turning 18 today

• Wasn't even alive when Michael Jackson's Black or White debuted on prime time TV after In Living Color


• Was two when the Playstation came out and missed the entire video game cartridge generation


• Was too young to witness the greatness that used to be the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers


• Was five when The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Hard Knock Life and DMX's It's Dark and Hell is Hot came out


• Never got to play with a Teddy Ruxpin


• Probably never had a TV with knobs


• Doesn't remember Yahoo having those dumb sections: "Arts and Humanities, Entertainment" instead of a simple search bar


• Missed the whole America Online buddy list, "You've got mail," five minute boot-up period while you waited for dial-up to connect


• By the time they turned five...Martin, Living Single, In Living Color, The Cosby Show and A Different World were all off the air.


• Never had a brown cable box with the bright red numbers and the A/B side.

I'm sure that anyone older than me can say something similar about me, but this is my post and my thoughts. It's also my time to resent these little bastards for never having to go to a library and use ENCYCLOPEDIAS, the Card Catalog and the Dewey Decimal System to do their homework.

Things done changed.

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