I was 14 - 23, so I guess you could say those were the "good years" (though I am currently embracing my 30s).
What do I remember?
-Good hip hop and rap music (Biggie - who I saw in concert twice, Wu-Tang Clan, Naughty by Nature, The Geto Boys, etc)
-Pulp Fiction became my favorite film of all time.
-Watching 90210 and Melrose Place
-AIDS was a fear but it really didn't stop anyone from having casual sex. However, "Did you get tested?" became a stock line when entering into a new relationship.
-Mostly peaceful years after Desert Storm in 1991
-In college, believing we would all become Internet millionaires and retire by 35 (LOL at that one now).
-At least believing we would be financially successful upon graduation - feel bad for all you kids graduating from college now!
-Being the first generation that really wouldn't let go of being "kids". Thus, the emergence of the slacker. I know plenty of people who unfortunately never got past this stage of life.
-Getting my first pager, CD player, and, at the very end of the decade when I began my post-college professional career, a cell phone (a clunky basic thing that was a phone only).
-Everyone had more money and everything was cheaper. Oh, cheap gasoline, where have you gone?
-Grunge wear and baggy hip hop clothes. I must admit I owned several pairs of bust-a-sag jeans.
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