To want to go back in time?

[toyouibelong]

Does anyone else have this horrible feeling that they wish they could go back to how things were.
I feel so nostalgic today.
Remembering the 90s
I was 12/13 and my mum was still alive.
Watching top of the pops.
Saturdays getting up and watching smtv/cduk
Nights were Noel's House party /blind date and gladiators.
Old music I loved,b*witched,backstreet boys etc
I miss those days of no worries.
I would go back in a heartbeat
Anyone else ever have moments like this
Feel a bit weepy thinking it's gone and won't ever come back.

Yes, I miss the 90s, but I wish I could go back and make better choices regarding my education and career. I miss my teenage body, I miss having few responsibilities and I miss the optimism I had, this was taken away by a lot of death and illness in our family in the later 90s/early 00s, I know that happens to everyone though and some have had it far worse.

I love a bit of nostalgia. Underage clubbing until three am and sitting in a letter box until the first train home while we 'stayed at each others houses'. The one song that reminds of that period is Faithless I Can't Get No Sleep.

DB and I would rate TOTP - it was thumbs up, thumbs down or a hand wobble for each song, with accompanying grunt. Did anyone else write out the TOP 40 each week or was that just me?!

Endless Summer holidays, bikes, roller skates, tennis, pogo sticks.
Firsts - first single, first concert.
The Body Shop, Topshop, Athena posters (that man and baby?!), Northern Exposure, crushes on Keanu Reeves, Nirvana

I love a 90s session on You Tube dancing - great for cleaning the kitchen!

I wish I could go back too. Life was so much simpler then, the internet was only its infancy, there was no social media, very few people had mobile phones, there were fewer TV channels and so everyone's watched the same shows at the same time and so you'd get those water cooler moments where everyone discussed what they'd watched the night before.

I would go back further. 1984 was the best year of my life, it's been downhill ever since.

I think most people feel nostalgic for the era in which they were young. You often hear them say that it was a more "innocent" age but I think this just means it was the time they were fresh-faced & optimistic about life, before it had knocked them about a bit!

However to answer your question OP, I would not wish to go back in time and be young again - I will be 60 later this year and feel settled & happy in the life I have now, a marriage of 30 years, the pleasure of seeing my adult children make their way in the world, travel plans in retirement with DH etc etc I was anxious & insecure when young and much prefer how I feel now

I know this is old now but meeee lol. I was born in the late 80s. I wish I could be at school again messing about with friends and having a laugh. I really miss my childhood days of bewitched and spice girls, rugrats and sister sister. Wish I could watch Sabrina again too. They were the best times. Probably because the older you get the more responsibility you have. I fear once my kids are older and I get my space back I'll be old 😭😭 they really are the best years of your life and was mostly very happy at school. The sense of belonging and having friends. Sometimes now I just seem to be cut off and busy cleaning my house. I don't feel 30 yet either. Still feel 21 at heart lol

Get yourself to 90's over 18's weekend at Butlins and thank me later.

I dunno. Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be....

Argh reviving a zombie thread because your nostalgic 😂😂😂! Amazing.

But also, zombie threads are a right pain. Why has MN not done something about the really old threads being closed? I'm sure it gets discussed on Site Stuff now and again, but nothing ever happens... MNHQ?

*you're

And actually, it's not that old...as you were.

I do this a lot, very happy with my life but yes I do wish I had a time machine to go back and re-experience a day in my childhood etc. I get very emotional looking at old photos, listening to old music etc. I can only imagine how much more intense it is when you are missing someone though.

I’d go back too. Make different choices about education and boys. But it would have to be early/ mid seventies for me.
But then I look at my kids and grandkids. I wouldn’t have them if I’d done things differently.

Amen sista

At school you would see your friends for the first time since yesterday.
If you wanted to meet at the weekend you’d pick a date and location and be there.
Or if you wanted to speak you’d call the house phone and be polite to their mum.

Now I look at my 12 year old girl who leaves school and immediately FaceTimes her friends and plays online with them throughout the night.
It’s just weird