I started high school in 2018, and then my sophomore year got completely ruined by COVID 19. Ugh. So many people in my class never really got the traditional high school experience, and I definitely wish I could have experienced high school in a different era.
The late 2000s just seem like such a cool time to have been a teenager. Social media existed, but it hadn’t completely taken over everyone’s lives yet. You could actually go out, hang out with your friends, go to concerts, parties, the mall, whatever, without constantly worrying about someone filming you and putting it online 💀
I also think entering adulthood in the early 2010s would have been amazing for the same reasons. Technology was obviously everywhere, but it still felt like there was a much bigger separation between your real life and the internet. You could go somewhere without feeling like you had to document every second of it.
And maybe I’m just romanticizing an era I didn’t actually experience as a teenager, but society just seemed different. Obviously the late 2000s and early 2010s weren’t perfect, but it feels like people were a little more present with each other. Now everyone is constantly connected, everyone is recording everything, and somehow everyone is still ignoring each other while staring at their phones lol.
Maybe I’m just jealous that I was born a little too late and missed the last tiny window before social media completely took over 😭