People who lived in the 90s, was it as goods as ppl think it was?

I’m sure most people will say it was great, but it wasn’t for me. I was a nerdy, empathetic, wannabe intellectual who always wanted more - more knowledge, more history, more tech, more games more art, more culture - and my parents repeatedly moved from one small town to another small town across the world. When I’d hang with friends we’d watch the same movies over and over, listen to the same - often crude, misogynistic and homophobic - albums, play the same games. I’d end up reading everything I wanted from the local library, I’d have to mail letters to my old friends that would take weeks to arrive until eventually we lost contact, I’d hang out with guys from school who shot birds with slingshots because the social circles were small enough that I’d hate to not be their “friend” for fear of becoming an outsider.

Sure, lots about the present sucks, but I’ve always been a bit of a recluse and I think I really would have preferred having the whole world of literature, movies, history resources, podcasts, games, worldwide communication, general autodidact shit, etc available to me at home. To be able to keep in touch with the true friends I met, instead of blending in with local groups.

I didn’t grow up to be some fancy intellectual, I’ve spent most of my career in kitchens, so I’m not trying to be a snob. I get that I’m a lame dork, but I guess I wish I had spent my childhood playing Minecraft with friends from New Zealand than hanging out with the neighbour because he knocked on my door and my parents want me to get out of the house… and watching that neighbour blow up frogs with firecrackers.

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