Today, while having lunch with my mother, I watched an ad on television about two boys playing with action figures and building a fort. The first thing that I told my mom was that it had been ages since I saw children playing with actual toys and not electronic devices. I was born in the 1990s, and that ad reminded me of the ones that I used to see while watching Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and Fox Kids. I remember how awesome they looked and how badly I wanted the toys that they were advertising. I was obsessed (still am, not going to lie) with "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers," "Pokémon," "Saint Seiya," "Sailor Moon," and "Dragon Ball," and I used to collect everything about them. The ad was nostalgic to me: playing with my friends with actual toys. The memories, the innocence, the naïveté... I got sad. Those are moments that are never coming back, you know? Moments when children were all accepting, until they "find out" or are told that you're different and start rejecting and ignoring you. Moments where you actually hand out with your buddies and play silly games like "hide-and-sick" and "tags." When I used to spend hours talking on the telephone with my best friends. Now, it's all so different with children nowadays. I'm sure that you thought the same while observing children of my generation. There is so much that I miss and that I wish that I could have done differently, but the past is in the past. There's nothing that I can do about it. Be grateful for who I am and for what I have. Anyway, that ad brought back all those feelings that I somehow had inside of me, but wasn't aware of. How interesting and fascinating it was to find your question. I genuinely like you, so I read it and tried to be funny, but today something relating to your question happened and it gave me the opportunity to express myself, and share what I had to say (I am a private person and I mostly keep things to myself).
Thank you for always being so kind, respectful, and sweet to me.