When faced with writer's block, any honest teenager today will admit Netflix may have stumbled onto their screens as a source of "inspiration."

Naturally, I tackled writers block with half a season of The Carrie's Diaries, a show I love and relate to. Carrie Bradshaw serves as a lens to the age I am about to enter; the age of innocence in adulting. Moving to a new city and socializing with new people where naivety replaces itself with experience, joy and in the show- heartbreak.

Bradshaw sat stumped with crumpled papers scattered around a typewriter in a magenta dress with brightly colored accessories, that were as bright as the blank screen that was in front of me.

All of the prompts I had shuffled through my head couldn't compare to the one being told right in front of me.

"Write something that makes you smile," said Sebastian Kid, love interest of Bradshaw.

Okay Sebastian Kid, I will. I will write about your show, your era, and how it makes me smile.

The show as a whole did not fail to include blue eye shadow, neon jewelry and of course, Madonna to appropriately place the show in the early 1980's.

I started to gather all the music played in the show, rediscovering and appreciating Modern English, Billy Idol, The Go Go's, and once again, Madonna.

The novelty of the era makes me smile. The music parallels the unconventional aroma that perfumed the time. "I Melt With You" by Modern English is about a couple having sex while a bomb explodes around them, or "Dancing With Myself" was originally inspired by the image of Japanese children dancing like pogo-sticks alongside the desire of artist, Billy Idol, to add sexuality to the music people wanted to dance to. The pop sounds cultivated in the 80s only added to this newfound openness towards taboo topics.

The playfulness and youthfulness in their outfits and music and choice of colors mixed with the era's curious innocence makes me smile and that's why I'm writing about it.

The time was eccentric, provocative and flashy, and those living in it thought of it as normalcy.

There wasn't a single thing wrong with being colorful, a trait I think my generation sometimes forgets. "Be this or be that" rings through the minds of me and I think a lot of people today. The 80s encouraged "and." "Be this and be that." Be everything you're curious of; be explorative.

A show I watched in 2016, made in 2013, about the 1980's based off of a show made in the 1990's, just reminds me how much culture can change and people too- but I too am still a girl, writing and watching my life unfold like a sit-com, and I just wanna have fun.