Uncharted Thoughts.

The year is 2008, I am sat in some class I don’t want to be in, my top five songs are:

Famous Last Words – My Chemical Romance

Tears Don’t Fall – Bullet For My Valentine

Flo Rider – Low

Ed Sheeran – Lego House

and some other Emo trash song, probably Green Day.

There are phones, flip ones, without a touch screen or any social media. The hairstyles are wacky, and the fashion is concerning to say the least. Brightly coloured T-shirts with neon coloured cuff strips on both arms and around the V neck. Girls wore tartan short skirts and glasses without lenses in them.

The breaktime bell would ring and we’d gather in the quads (the two areas in school nicknamed the quads) and show off iPod classics, flip phones and new shoes.

I imagine today, kids will be sharing memes, watching the newest fail videos and perhaps the boys will be sharing pictures of older girls they matched on fake Tinder pages.

Now, I distinctly remember we never had meme’s to show off. Instead we had to resight movie’s and videos we had seen that week. Yet one movie stood above the rest, one was so quotable all I remember doing for the better part of a year was acting out lines from it in front of my friends. That movie was Anchorman.

All we would do is reenacting Anchorman quotes on repeat for hours upon hour, days and weeks and for some reason it never got old.

“Where did you get your clothes… the toilet store?”

“That escalated quickly”

“60% of the time, it works every time”

While I understand that technology and life moves on, I do miss the simplicity and innocence of it all. I can’t imagine what kids have to go through these days when it comes to the internet and social media.

There was magic in this period of my life…. a lost magic I think.