Wistful For 1993..

Over the last several weeks, I've become wistful for 1993.  It wasn't a particularly easy year for me personally, but vibe of Everyday Life was so much lighter, slower, less dense than it is now.  Looking back at our recent history, 1993 was the last realistic year we had to "course correct" away from what has mutated into our present path.  Of course, We as a Society had no idea the lateness of hour, so nothing changed, and our fate was effectively sealed.

But, in reality, 1993 was already way too late, too..

Due to my age now and then, I look to that time as a time of prolonged calm and optimism after 12 years of the Reagan/Bush 80's.  1993 felt like we were finally on the Right Path, and we were well on our way..  Which, in reality, we were not.  The cards were still stacked against us, yet we believed otherwise. 

And now, here we are.  I wish we had more vigilant, but now there is nothing to be done about the past.  Maybe the lesson isn't about mistakes from that past, but preventing making even bigger mistakes in our present, and immediate futures..

In the meantime, when taking a break from Japan and Libya and Financial Meltdown and domestic turmoil and general disaster fatigue, I'll be looking back to 93, thinking of sunny days and smiling people and crowded restaurants and MTV and past friends and all of future's promise, all there, every morning, just like it was the night before..