Things were better back then... fresher, and greener. Life was a simple state with no worries, save for keeping my GPA high enough to pass the Gestapo-like College admissions and scholarship requirements.
I was happier then, and totally ignorant of the amount of rancid shit that the next half-decade would yield. And now there is no way back.
Worse still, is the thought of 1999. A nation braced on the brink of the coming millenium, never knowing or anticipating the fact that things would never be better.