Fatma

I’ve been thinking a lot about faith recently, which is mostly due to me watching The Seventh Seal not too long ago. The film made me realise that faith is like believing in something that is in the dark. You can’t see it, but you know that it’s there. You have faith in it (the film really portrays this well). Whether “it” is “god” or “your end of year test results,” the formula for faith stays the same. I find that really cool.

I have recently fallen in love with the song “Crazy” by Aerosmith. It’s a ’90s jam with the dreamiest music video I’ve ever seen—it makes me weirdly emotional. I guess I have finally come to realise how different the world is today compared to 20 years ago.

When I think about it, my thoughts about faith and nostalgia aren’t that different. The Alicia Silverstone and Liv Tyler who star in that Aerosmith video may not be the same today, but that doesn’t mean I can’t believe in them as they were then. Just because I live in 2016 and TV shows, music, and people are different now, doesn’t mean I can’t revisit the ’90s—for me, they still exist. I’m reassured that ’90s music videos will always be there waiting for me, no matter how much time passes. ♦