We often want what we can’t have. After all, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

Accordingly, I am convinced that I should have been a teenager growing up in the late 60’s, 70’s or early 80’s. These decades marked the golden ages of flower power, rock and roll and neon windbreakers.

To me, their appeal lies in the simplicity and truth in the way of life back then. Real and raw relationships between people nowadays seem like a rarity. An impeccable sense of fashion is also a major plus of that time period.

I fantasize about that era because I am in love with the characters from “That 70’s Show,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Pretty in Pink” and “The Breakfast Club.” I dream about being in attendance at Woodstock, hanging out at drive-in movies and wearing corduroy bell-bottoms with a leather fringe vest.

However, most of the information I’ve acquired about this era is from watching television and all of the John Hughes movies. And I relate to these characters just as much as I relate to ones from modern day coming of age movies.

If I really were a teenager in the late 60’s to early 80’s, I might have wished that I could have been alive in the 20’s. This curiosity about living in another time period is a never-ending cycle from generation to generation. People dream about the past to escape the present.

I guess some things never change. In every generation, adolescence is a special time of discovery, frustration, joy and heartbreak. I think teenagers will always be the same, no matter what changes the next decade will bring.