Time Warp

Last night the hubs and I watched Sixteen Candles (K stayed up for part of it, too) for about the 30th time. He hates the 80's and pretty much everything that came out of it (except for me, duh). Any time I want to watch a movie or listen to music from that decade, he pretty much tunes it out. Last night was different though.

Last night we got into a discussion about how the 80's were so much better than the present day. We were getting a tad nostalgic. I feel like things were so much simpler then. Kids were more innocent later into their lives, our lives weren't driven by technology they way they are now. I feel like media wasn't as ever-present in my childhood like it is for my kids. In 2013, we feel that we need to know everything about everyone, and in turn, we feel that everyone should know everything about us (figuratively speaking...not 'us' like me and him). There are COUNTLESS reality shows that are just about random people's day-to-day lives. Keeping Up With the Kardashians (puke, sorry), Real Housewives of Insert-City-Here, Sixteen and Pregnant...I could go on for days, I'm sure.

Every day we are pummeled with someone else's reality show problems. Celebrities (who no one really knows WHY they are famous in the first place *cough* Kardashians *cough*) complain about paparazzi following them and hounding them, yet there they are, on TV for another mindless season. I've never really been into reality TV. Now, I like some game-type shows like Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls, or The Amazing Race, but never talent show-type deals like American Idol. My mom watches the Bachelor/Bachelorette, but I think it's silly and ridiculous. I know it's just my taste, and everyone has their own.

Back to my point: When I was a kid, the world seemed like a bigger place than it does now. I don't want Egypt on my doorstep or North Korea in my back yard. I know people shouldn't be ignorant...I know that it's good and responsible to be informed of the goings-on in our world, I get that. But I feel like I need to take a Xanax just to watch CNN anymore. So I don't. I don't read the newspaper anymore. I didn't know about that girl who was kidnapped by her mother and brother's killer until like a week or more after it hit the media. Maybe it's just me, but I like to live in my safe little world with my 2 kids, my husband and my dog and not worry about another country's war. I know this stuff was televised and reported on when I was a kid as well, but I feel like it wasn't so in-your-face.

B and I have talked several times about living in the middle of nowhere, just us and the kids. Growing our own food, disconnected from the constant media coverage of whatever is happening at the time. I wish I owned a DeLorean. They are ugly as heck, but if it can get me back to the simpler times, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.