Dedicated to my 90’s girls, the absolutely beautiful souls I was blessed to grow up with 
Do you remember the 90s?
The landline phones – no CLI, you have no option but to recognize who is on the other end… so many prank calls. The free tattoos that came with bubble gum wrappers. The cassette tapes where you always have a blank tape inside so you can record your favourite song on radio.
If someone asked me to describe the 90’s in one word, I’d say ENERGETIC. No decade can ever beat the energy that the 90’s people had, even now… I will bet you anything on this.
It is the best, anyone who disagree have not lived the 90’s. The Bollywood in 90’s is something you cannot get away from…
Everything is over the top, overrated, loud and dramatic… A rich girl falls in love with a poor boy, then they dance around a tree for a song. Boy’s mother falls sick, then there is a song. There was a song for everything, there was a dance for everything.
Past few days I ended up doing a Bollywood dance with my batch mates in school for a school fundraiser. Not a dancer at all, the level of commitment I had to put in for it was high. I wanted to opt out few times, but I felt guilty. With the commitment and the level of energy the rest of them brought in, I was in no position to back off. While some of them packed their children to their inlaw’s house on the days of dancing, some of them left their children and came from Gampaha, some of them who are doctors came for practices after night shifts and some of them even practiced the dance at hospitals between patients. Some might think its crazy, yes that too was a consequence of being a 90’s girl.
Bollywood have taught us a lot, it taught us about loving your parents, loving your best friend (wink), respecting elders… it taught us the value of relationships, of letting go and holding on. It taught us to sympathise and empathise. No one could do romance better than them and no one could bring out emotions as much as them. In a funny way it has taught us about life and 20 years down the line, it still has that impact in us.
Crazy, naïve, overly romantic and silly. We didn’t have Justin Bieber back then, we had Prince William. Thanks to sweet valley obsession we made a love portion with soft drinks and ice cream from school cafeteria and swore and drank it saying ‘’William’’ the point was that Prince William needed to marry one of us. Well it was supposed to be a secret or the spell would break, I think the spell and our hearts both broke when he married Kate anyway. (One of my friends accidently said ‘’Wilson’’ instead of ‘William’ 
– only if Wilson uncle knew this)
– only if Wilson uncle knew this)
I think we are one of the blessed decades to have received love letters (hand written ones, with scented paper) and although we might not have ‘literally’ danced around trees, we were lucky to enjoy the cheesy romance. The movies to songs, everywhere there was emotion. Heightened emotions. Even the lyrics were dramatic. ‘Najane mere dil ko kya, ho gaya… abhi tho abhi, kya abhi ho gaya….’’ Or ‘’quit playing games with my heart, I should have known from the start…’’ or ‘’my heart will go on and on…’’
90’s was not cool, it was not sexy, we didnt ‘duck face’ for photos. We had embarrassingly ugly pictures of ourselves, we had natural hair, we had imperfect shapes and tanned bodies. We didn’t have Kim Kardashains (thank god) or Edward Cullens. We had Shah Rukh Khan, we had Leonardo de Caprio (we loved his haircut – mushroom style from Titanic until every guy on the road copied it) We grew up watching real people, we were fans of people who actually inspired us.
One of the best thing about 90’s was that nothing was perfect. We never tried to be, we never tried too hard, we never tried too much, we were just ourselves.
90’s was about living the moment. It still is, even if it’s a mom with two kids or a wife – we still have that in us to live for the moment. It was a mixture of energy and emotion…
90’s was the decade which was meant to be real not to be perfect 
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