Ok, such
posts have been doing rounds on Facebook - “BORN in 80's...” “100
things you didn’t know about me” etc. ….. also “born in the 70s”!! So, now that
I find myself again on a certain threshold between something and something, and
with a lot of time on hand, it led me wonder on similar lines what it was like
for me (and my generation) to have grown up in the 70s!!!! I’m a child of the
70’s, raised in the 80’s and the 90’s can very well leave me alone! As a child
of the 70’s, I know that ‘Grunge’ is here to stay, ‘Fashion’ is fickle and ‘Freedom’
is a myth. So let’s see…. Here goes….
You
know you’re born in the 70s… When..
1.
When
you remember Ek Chidiya, Jungle jungle baat chali hai(Jungle Book), Molu The
Penguin, Swami from Malgudi Days, Chandrakanta, Buniyaad, Nukkad, Hum Log on
Doordarshan and the first time you ever had an eternal crush on Shahrukh Khan
was when you saw him in Fauji and Circus!!
2.
When
you’ve grown up watching Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin on video cassettes
on your VCRs, listened to ABBA, BOB Marley and Sat Nite Fever on cassettes that
were your father’s collection…. And waited for Chitrahaar on DD for your dose
of Hindi film songs!!
3.
The
cartoons you grew up watching were Tom and Jerry, The Gloworms, Mickey and
Donald, Winnie the Pooh, He Man and the Masters of the Universe, The
Flintstones and Spiderman!!
4.
You
shopped at Weekender and Benetton.
5.
Your
learning in the institution of Music started from Backstreet Boys, Boyzone ,
Spice Girls, Peter Andre, Westlife, Savage Garden, Vengaboys and gradually, in
a smooth transition, progressed to The Beatles, Chris Isaak, Kurt Cobain, Pink
Floyd, Metallica, Def Leppard, Jim Morrison, Led Zeppelin… etc.
6.
You
know Parikrama started their initial gigs covering PF and Metallica, and now
they ONLY perform their own songs in concerts!! \m/
7.
When
you knew that ‘Buland Bharat ki buland tasveer’ was HUmara BAJAJ, when you had
‘Gale meing khich-khich’ you had to take VICKS ki Goli, ‘The Zing Thing’ was
Gold-Spot and the ‘Super Cooler’ was Citra, you knew what happened when ‘Roshan
hota BAJAJ’, … and you just HAD to say ‘I love you’ to Rasna. ;O)
8.
When
you remember Lisa Ray and Mehr Jesia from the Garden-Vareli commercials and the
Lyril girl was every boy’s fantasy and the Siyaram’s, Raymonds and Bombay
Dyeing man was every girl’s!! *daydreams* ;) :P
9.
When
the price of 1 litre petrol was Rs 25. *sighs*
10.
Your
photographs were saved in photo albums in your drawers/closets and not on
hard-disks!!
11.
You
brighten up at the very mention of the word ‘Retro’ and assign much reverence
to it coz in any given context; it more often than not refers to the 70s!!! \m/
12.
Your
ticket to outer space was Star Wars and Planet of the Apes and to SpookVille was The Omen, Evil Dead and
The Exorcist. (And you have to admit you watched all of those horror movies
through a pillow in front of your face!!) :P :D
13.
You
don’t understand the need to expel Pluto from our solar system!!!!!!
14.
While
watching TV together, the Katrina ad of XperiaZ Smartphone comes on… and upon
the visual of the phone being washed in water, my brother asked my mom, who
uses a Nokia phone, “Mummy, taro phone Smartphone
che?(is your phone a Smartphone?)” And she replies imperturbably, “No” He
asks, “Why?” And such innocence and nonchalance she replies “Cause my phone
cannot be washed in water!!” Like she doesn’t even care!!
If you’re born in the 70’s, your generation is probably the last one to have
those sweet, not-corrupted-by-technological-invasion, “motherly” mothers!!
<3>
15.
Braces
with colored rubber bands made you cool!!
16.
You
can spell, punctuate and know the figures of speech.
17.
You
cried listening to “unbreak my heart” by Toni Braxton (Yes, boys included! :-|)…..
and if you were a girl, you DEFINITELY tried to merge two shades of lipstick,
one dark and one frosted, to get the signature Toni Braxton look!!!
18.
Your
first fake tattoo to a party was a black dot between your eyebrows (a bindi),
coz you knew Gwen Stefani was à la mode!
19.
You
came home from school, had your lunch and watched your fave recorded cartoons
on the VCR and though gaming consoles weren’t the norm like they are today, you
did play Pac Man on a hand held Nintendo and a few other games on an Atari. But
mostly, YOU PLAYED OUTSIDE!
20.
You
didn’t think twice before drinking water from a garden hose, and buying bottled
water didn’t even occur to you.
21.
You
know ‘metal’ means music! :-|
22.
When
you know that MTv and Channel V actually played MUSIC once upon a time! :-/
*L-\*
23.
Your
first cigarette was A Phantom Sweet cigarette!! :’)
24.
You’ve
had a perm, at least once. You’ve had a GI Jane crew cut, at least once. You’ve
had a blunt cut, at least once.
I could go on and on….. And if you’re
still reading this, and if it’s hit home, know that you indeed have a heritage….
A heritage of stories you can tell grandchildren – your own or anybody else’s!
Cheers.. :)
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