One of my favourite activities to do in Math class is a break-out room where students are trapped in the 80s and must escape.

I always preface the lesson by telling them the 80s weren’t as great as people think and it baffles me why there was (is?) so much nostalgia for it. They need to get out as fast as possible.

Colleagues argue that it was a great decade amidst my eye-rolling.

Even Stranger Things doesn’t bring back any glorious “wanting to go back” moments, despite it being a fun show to watch.

It’s just another example of people thinking there was some golden era in the past that we’ve lost and today is worse than it has ever been. We must never forget the wisdom of the past, but its purpose is to guide us in the best time we’ve ever had–which is today.

We’re not a perfect society and never will be, but we’re way better than where we were.

In Canada, I can eat an avocado in the middle of winter then video chat with my parents, for free, with a device that fits in the palm of my hand.

In the 80s my mom bought me a box of Cocoa Pebbles. That and I was medically misdiagnosed and suffered lifelong consequences over something that is routine knowledge today. Whoops.

I don’t always understand change, but I don’t let fear prevent me from embracing it.

Every decade had its moments, but we’ll never have it better than right now.