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Sometimes I think back on the 2000's and when I was a little kid. I still randomly think about when I was in middle school, sometimes even my early high school years very fondly.
Sometimes I even get nostalgic for a life I didn't even live. I see plenty of posts online about them, mood boards and edits of it too. There's some that are coming back in the form of videos on TikTok that seem to be very popular right now - specifically "Older Brother-core," or whatever.
I was raised around uncles and cousins like that, and I always get really happy when I see those posts, they really take me back to when I was 8, playing Halo and Left 4 Dead on an Xbox 630 with my younger cousins and brother.
I remember specifically playing Skylanders with my uncle, I'd always play as Cynder and Scratch, nothing else. I remember when I was little my grandparents got me and my brother a new Skylanders game that included racing cars, I was ecstatic and so was my brother.
The style is something I'm really drawn to as well, every time I see a post of it, I just think, "Man, I want to dress like that so bad..." Shit, still do! And seeing all of the discontinued items and things that I can never get back from those times really make me all sad.
Old internet from the 2000's never fails to make me geek out too, I love seeing old posts with old MS paint Warrior Cats art, those awful gory MLP animations none of us should've been watching, all the FNAF animations - God, I miss it all so much.
Old tech designs too! The designs we have now for technology is so... bland. There's no color, no creativity in almost ANYTHING now. Back in the 2000's, there were stylistic laptops, phones, fun see-through colorful Xbox controllers, ETC. Everything just had much better design back than compared to now. It really bugs me. Yes, I am forever stuck with a plain gray laptop, I will never have a lovely hot pink awesome laptop... Sigh. :(
Certain times and seasons always get me all nostalgic too; spring is a big one. Any time it gets all bright and stormy, I just think back to when I was a little kid, playing around with my brother in our old backyard in a stupid water sprinkler. I also remember my cousins had a huge pool in their backyard, the stupid games we played in those were so silly - some we were just practically drowning each other as a game, LOL. It's very fun to think back on old memories, even though it makes me sad I can never get those back.
I do try to think to myself though, it's not like you can't relive them - you can, it just won't really be the same as when you were a little kid. I can always play in a sprinkler during summer, dilly dally around in a pool, it just won't be as fun as when I was younger, obviously - nothing will, but I still appreciate the present I'm in even though the world's quite a dumpster fire currently!
Okay, anyway, I'm just yapping about 2000's shit.
I'm done now!
Nostalgia will KILL ME.
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flymakeflea ⚞ • ⚟
i think that a lot of this boils down to how you think about it.
a lot of stuff has changed since the 2000s- obviously. i used to have a very similar problem, where everything i did was surrounded by this cloud of "this was way more fun when you were a kid", "nothing is ever gonna be the same", but to be honest, that's largely a self fulfilling prophecy.
in my experience, what made the biggest difference for me was paying more attention to the world around me. there's a lot of specific things to miss from our childhood, but there wasn't some mystical quality to the 2000s that made it better than any other decade, it was your engagement and curiosity.
you have to put a little more effort into it than you did as a kid, but this feeling isnt unique to our generation. millennials thought the 2000s and 2010s were bleak and boring- they either got over that or they didn't, but the key to being the former was looking at how little has actually changed in the grand scheme of things. if you go to any small town in america, people are still wearing taco cat tshirts and hot pink leopard print. stuff we used to do as kids may be harder to do tech wise, but you can still go on a walk and jump over cracks, and gather weird looking plants to look up later. you can still find connection with the people around you, like you're doing now on this website. keep your chin up- don't get discouraged by the things that arent there, and enjoy the things that are.