Take me back to the 80s - PLEASE

[Lobip]

I'm watching a British 80s film and feeling SO nostalgic. I absolutely LONG for this era again. I was only a young teen and didn't have any awareness of/exposure to expensive mortgage rates/unemployment etc . None of my close family had passed away. I was a child and life was just so much simpler. We had large family Christmas gatherings.

I cry at the lost years we had .. I often wonder if I need therapy to move on.

But they are not lost years, you got to enjoy them - sounds like a great deal too, which is clearly something to be cherished.

Are you not enjoying life at the moment @Lobip ?

We still had difficulties back then, but there wasn't the toxicity that social media has created. People are harsh, entitled and cynical now. They're also exposed to the nastier sides of life so it's hardened people I think.

@MargoLivebetter life these days is :
Juggling work/home admin/running the house/budgeting for spend/money worries/washing/grocery shopping/being mums taxi/tidying/sorting/cajoling DC/school runs/managing DC homework to make sure they are on top of it/school emails to reply to & take action on/making time to see family & parents & friends & my own hobbies and chill time and time with DH and DC/making appts for DC and me .. and then add in Christmas planning/prep/buying.

I have DH

@Lobip you're missing being a child rather than the 80s. Adults in the 80s still had all the problems you've listed in your life now. I say this with kindness as I wish we were still in the 90s!

Sounds like you miss being a child

I don't

And oh my God in the 80s it was bloody freezing in winter (and just editing to add I remember how long the unemployment line was, with some people walking a couple of hours to collect their benefits as we were near the job centre in My area and they didn't have the bus fare)

older friends at school went straight from school into the 90s recession. I was really lucky I didn't.

Anyway, I do miss the 90s clubbing era, as is well documented on here, and I miss the early days of Internet when it was just laughing at cats.

I did find it very interesting watching It's A Sin because anyone who was an adult then would've had such a different experience. That also made me nostalgic for what London used to be like but that stretches into just past the millennium.

but yeah, it sounds like you miss childhood and you've got too much on your plate.

Sounds like you are mourning the passing of your youth @Lobip . I think we all have times in our lives that we yearn to return to every now and then.

There is no harm in remembering happy times, as long as we aren't missing out on the happy times that exist now as well. Sounds like you have lots of great things in your life now too with your DC and DH. It will all fly by so fast and be gone, just like the 80s are gone. I know that there are lots of dull admin type things that have to be done as a parent, but try and find the good bits and celebrate those, so you can look back on them just as fondly in years to come too.

Well, as you can see by my user name I do agree the 80s were a fun time, but it wasn’t without its challenges and a recession and some homes had negative equity and people had homes repossessed and it wasn’t always positive. I was young and out and about so you do only remember the good times!
I can’t believe how we all lived without the internet , but nobody knew any better I suppose. Things still worked and got done, it was just slower.