Early 2000s yapping, very long essay?

Is it just me who always constantly feels a bittersweet pang inside my chest whenever I witness 2000s aesthetics? Like from the hairstyles, fitted tops and low-waisted jeans, the modern-but-not too futuristic furnitures and technologies, the narrow gap between new and old seems so familiar yet heartwrenchingly distant to me. Doesnt help that I was born in the late 2000s, thus, it would most definitely been memories since I was too young to fully immerse and enjoy them during their prime.

Although I am very much thankful for the new generation for reintroducing and making y2k a trend again, and thankful especially for my cousins and relatives who have experienced the good times in that era, it just makes me so gloomy everytime I get reminded that I didnt experience the era of the early internet, with all its quirks (although some insensitive stuff and media is thankfully in the past now, 2000s is not without its imperfections) but I just miss it. The childlike wonder, that excitement for innovation for technology, the cyber-retrofuturism theme it has, even the shows and movies during that era... Like I swear, the styling for 2000s movies was off the hook! Mean Girls? Live-action Scooby Doo? Hellooooo?? They were like, super hip and cool without feeling too modern or Gen Z or minimalist or whatnot!! They had this color, this vibrant vibe all over them that makes it feel so youthful despite its more classy modern age. It just felt so human.

So here I am, yapping about the 2000s when I was definitely a toddler or nonexistent during those times, striving hard to make my late teenhood and young adulthood have the same spark and happiness 2000s people had - with their music, shiny lipgloss, furniture (at least in the sims 4) and fix the many atrocious mistakes I've lived with these past few years with a better tomorrow.

Thank you for stopping by to my rant and ramble.