The 90s
I was tinkering around on a piano the other day. Or rather, I was watching Ms. S playing the piano, and she asked me to play something. I am not musically inclined at all, and my claim to fame on the piano is the Rugrats theme. But at one point during high school I got my friend to teach me how to play the intro to K-Ci & JoJo’s “All My Life”, so I was struggling to remember how to play at least that much.
And after that I couldn’t stop thinking about the song. I guess to me, it was one of a handful of songs that I remember quite fondly of during my high school years. So I now had this song stuck in my head, and for the past week I’ve been listening to it at least a few times a day during work; this eventually spread to Boyz II Men and some other “classic” love songs.
Which got me thinking: what happened to the 90s? I know a lot of people that are all too happy to put the last decade behind them, especially their high school life. But I really had a lot of fun back then. Just going through my days with minimal responsibilities, (my parents’) disposable income, bundled together with a better-than-thou ego before I was humbled by the real world.
I’m pretty sure I wasn’t one of those who rushed to grow up, but still, I can’t help but miss the days when I could eat like a pig and not get sick, stay up past 3AM everyday and not get tired, and just turn around and shrug off my responsibilities.
Actually, these thoughts have been swirling around in my head since I left university. But lately I’ve been adding on the “if only I knew then what I know now…” spiel. So do I really regret my life so far? I dunno. I certainly wish I could have seen and done more things, but its not like I’m discontented with where my life is right now. Is it just human nature to yearn for something that is out of reach?
“Let’s not wait ‘til the water runs dry,
We’ll make the biggest mistake of our lives….”
