Did anyone else watch You’ve Got Mail when they were 15?
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I remember thinking that sitting in bed with a laptop, writing emails was a) the coziest thing I’d ever seen and b) totally sci-fi and technically impossible in real life for at least another 100 years. And even then definitely only available in America, not anywhere near Europe and that this would certainly NEVER BE ME.
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Why does this scene suddenly pop up in my memory? It’s funny for two reasons.
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Firstly:
20 years later I have an app on my phone that deletes other apps from 9pm to 9am (during which time there is no way of making them reappear) to cut out the bedtime infinity scroll and revert to pre-digital 1999 bliss like reading actual books. I can highly recommend this.
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Secondly:
It absolutely CAN be me. Things change, progress is made. In technology, life, the mind. Everything shifts all the time.
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I hope to have higher aspirations these days than in 1999. Just as I‘d love to send my 15 year old self an ICQ message with a sneak peak of 2019, I‘d love for my 55 year old self to look back on now and say: „You though that was impossible? Ha ha ha!“
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#lifegoals #youvegotmail #1999 #beginningoftheend #digitaldetox
