I'm grieving the future that has never come.

The 90s were so optimistic: the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union. As a kid, I was promised a prosperous future. When I looked at the theme of Windows 98, or played the video games, watched movies, I felt like the future would only get better.

 Well, that future ... never really came. I've realized that this is the decade I used to imagine as a kid, how it was going to be. I realized I'm now that age that I had always imagined as a kid — how I was going to be, what I'd look like, who I'd become. We live in an alternate timeline. These are the days of the future. This is not the timeline that it should be.

I want to be the person I imagined being in the future that never came.

We’re in the wrong timeline.

These are the days of the future, but not the future I expected.

I want to be the person I imagined being — in the future that never came

I remember the late 90s technologies were full of optimistic ideas in a unified world. Full of hope and big dreams in a world that felt like it was coming together. The 1990s were the decade of great optimism for so many...Now it is all gone...

I never thought the future would turn out like this.

There’s that scene in The Matrix where Morpheus tells Neo that 1999 was the peak of human civilization... Was he right?!

What just happened?

How do you feel about all these?

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I put this message into an AI as well. I got one message from it: Sorry, that's beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else.