Retro Friday

Basically I got the title from one radio station’s theme today. I was in the school bus and the radio was on full volume. I completely hate it whenever the radio’s on full volume, I mean, we’re not that deaf to not hear what’s playing! And the songs suck because the radio stations are perfectly suitable for the masses. I’m not discriminating or anything, it’s just that I don’t like chav-like radio stations. I just don’t.

Anyway, in ‘Retro Friday’, the radio station -- I wasn’t able to get the name of the station -- would usually play songs way back, specifically those from the late 70’s and 80’s. And then it started playing songs that reminded me of my early years. I had kind of a flashback when I was a toddler and we were on a road trip. The songs that Mum and Dad played back then were being played in the radio. I felt nostalgic, and I knew I was happy during the time, because a smile formed from the corner of my lips as I remembered one of my first glory days.

I snapped out of my thoughts and remembered that people have these terms for each decade. Like they call the 60’s the hippie era, 70’s the retro era, 80’s the dance/disco/I have no idea era. And then I wondered, what would the future generation call this decade? That question was always stuck in my mind whenever we’d talk about the past. 

And then it hit me. They would probably call this the hipster era. Or the party era. Or the internet-addicted era. I really don’t know, but it’s quite interesting brainstorming.