6 Things You'll Miss If You Grew Up In The 80s

"Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days."

Doug Larson

Growing up in the 1980s is a special privilege, the 80s was the greatest decade to grow up. But honestly, I think every one can have the same opinion for whatever decade they grew up. For some of our parents, the 50s and 60s were the best decades to grow up and they wouldn't trade it for our 80s' experiences just like I will not trade my 80s' experience with the '00s.

Here are 6 things you will miss if you grew up in the 80s

Cartoons

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Who else feels that children of this generation now get deprived of feeling the 'real' excitement of being kids? What happened to Saturday morning cartoons and so many other good shows that cared about the kids and helped us build our own creativity? The 80s gave us plenty of creative cartoons, you just have to feel sorry for the kids today.

Not Being Connected To The Internet 24/7

We may never truly comprehend how much the internet has taken away from us. I genuinely feel that we have all been lost in today's world of internet and social media and cell phones. Remember the glorious old days when you don't have to compete with the cell phones and internet to gain the attention of your siblings and friends with whom you could talk and entertain yourselves for hours with nothing but your imagination or some simple toys.

Now, nobody has time for anybody and are all engrossed with their cell phones. People don't have real friends anymore, all we have these days are networks of acquaintances (AKA people we are friends with on social media but hardly hangout with in real life)

Simplicity

I miss those days when tying your shoe lace is the most problematic thing in the world. You know what that means? There were no real problems.

Suspense

Do you remember those days when everything have elements of suspension? If a movie - which are definitely more iconic and innovative than anything you have now - was coming to the theaters, you only get to see a short trailer that only tells you the actors that featured in it, or you read a magazine article announcing the imminent release of the blockbuster video only a few weeks or months before it finally came out. You couldn't have known or heard anything about the movie a year before it hits theaters.

But now? we  already know almost everything about a movie before we watch it. Sadly that means there's no need to go see certain movies, we've already had our fun from the preview copy thanks to ever dependable pirates.

Creativity

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Remember those days when after coming home from school, you rush out to go and play outside till the street lights came on. We Created something from everything: Castles can be built on sand, guns can be made of wood, airplanes and boats can be made from papers. The imaginative and creative world of kids is dead and buried.

Happiness

Once upon a time, we didn't need to fake smiles and pretend to be happy just to take a selfie; we found happiness in everything we did. Today, many people believe that happiness is having fun at a party, and drinking themselves into stupor.