First Kiss, Summertime, 20 year nostalgia
July 5, 2006
I love the 80s. I was born in 1974 so most of my childhood memories are from the 80s.
My first kiss was in the 80s. It was beautiful disater that for some reason reminds me of
Nocera’s 1987 song “summertime, summertime”. Remember that song:
Chorus:
Take me
Take me to the water
Summertime, Summertime
Maybe, we can fall in love
In Summertime, SummertimeI listen to the rain outside
Please come and take me for a ride
I really want you
To come and take me far away
I want to sayChorus
I’m here lying on the sand
You look down to me and take my hand
I can’t believe it’s true
But you got me after thee
Until you sayChorus
I’m in my 30’s now with two kids (as of 2006). Time seems to go faster and faster with each passing year. I no longer have the sweet naivety of youth. Youth is relative. My co-workers (most at least 15 years older than me) still see me as a kid. Youth seems so disposable to me now but when I had it I felt like I would will live forever. I don’t have that luxury anymore because. I’ve felt the death of too many of my loved ones.
I find myself looking back and wondering where all those summers of “firsts” went: first kisses, first girl friend, first job, first… everything. Sade said it best: “never as good as the first time”.
With a smile on my face, I know that 20 years is really no time at all. I am certain that if I am lucky enough to reach 50, I’ll look back on all those decades I will have lived and smile and laugh the hardest at the 1980s and my childhood summers that are for me 20 years ago as of 2006.
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I really loved what you had to write. I think that is because I was born in 1975 and can relate to every word you say. Sometimes I feel that it was just yesterday I was sitting in front of the TV on Saturday morning watching cartoons. The time frame when we were born was very unique. As I see us born to the end of the seventies, and luckily growing as children of the eighties. We had the opportunity to watch our older siblings awkwardly / Bravely take on new bold fashions. And then are turn, entering us in to the nineties were it was thought that the generation x was going to end the civilized way of thinking and not amount to anything but a bunch of lazy video game junkies. But in reality we were the birth of a new generation of children that today thanks to us have a new direction to take on. The 80's were just a fun Void in life; stuck between two generations. I am very happy and proud to say that I was a part of that.
I’m not sure where GenX will take this country in 10-20 year when we start fully grabbing the reigns. what will the first GenX president be like?
looking for tv show that was on saturday mornings about a young teenager that if he ever got in trouble he would call on a bigfoot character to help him. maybe it didn’t last long just can’t remember what the show was called:?
it was called bigfoot and wild boy.