Turn back in time where you used to sit 4 hours watching the
Rugrats. Where you wouldn’t ever leave your house without
your nano baby, and when Blues Clues was actually challenging.
Rewind back to the times when your favorite shows were Doug, Ren
& Stimpy, Pinky and the Brain, AAAAAAH Real Monsters!. When
you watched re-runs of TGIF, Step by Step, Family Matters,
dinosaurs, and Boy Meets World. When you remember reading every
series of Goosebumps, or in that case, remember listening to your
mom read them as she grew bored and bored and as you grew more
excited as to what would happen next. When bringing plastic
cartoon lunch boxes to school was pretty much cool, and saying
“NOT,” after every sentence was the way to talk. When
every argument was settled by rock paper scissors, bubble gum
bubble gum in a dish, or daddy had a donkey inky binky bonky.
When cops and robbers was a daily activity, and when hide and go
seek was put to pause only when it was snack time. The days when
we used to actually obey our parents and when the radio was all
we depended on for music. When you knew that Kimberly, the pink
ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together.
When you always wanted to send in a tape to America's
Funniest Home Videos . . . but never taped anything
funny…so you gave up. When the Magic School Bus made you
think that school buses could fly, and when yo-yos made you
popular. When getting married meant buying your crush a Ring Pop,
and blabbing some random words behind the dumpster. When reading
that little paper in the fortune cookie meant everything to you
because it predicted your life. The days when you could tell
furbie all your little secrets and expect him to talk back, and
when Beanie Babies were the talk of the class. When you got
creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" And when
you knew the Macarena by heart. When you lied to your parents to
bring you to McDonalds because you were starving, when really,
you wanted to play in the play place. When gas was $0.95 a gallon
& Caller ID was a new thing, and when checking out drawing
books and "Rainbow Fish" from the library was the cool
thing to do. Before
we realized all this would eventually disappear we didn’t
bother to think of how good things were.