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The feeling that things might get better.
There was so much hope, everything was exciting and new. The world was getting better. Though I was <10 for most of the 90's so maybe it was just being a kid.
I turned 18 in 1999 and I also had hope, so it wasn't just kids.
18 year olds are kids.
Don't you have any dreams?
What's to dream about? Living these days feels like being in a game of monopoly where someone started with hotels on every property. The fascists are winning, the planet is burning, we're in the middle of two wars, the capitalists are talking about putting shock collars on their vault slaves when the apocalypse begins, and all signs point to everything getting worse as time goes on. In light of all this, my dream is dying peacefully in my sleep before the water wars begin and I get pushed into Nestle's torment nexus to make the stock price go up a fraction of a penny.
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