I have so much work to do and all caawa I've been leafing through youtube in search of my childhood memories.
For me: growing up in the backdrop of other people's political struggles. The aftermath of the Kuwaiti-Iraq war, the assassination of Al-Durra and his dad, the death of Asad's father, the many Palestinian Nakbah's, the uncensored death of many women, men 7 children live on TV, the fall of Clinton, the death of Diana (I cried because she left 2 orphans), the countless intense & scandalous Latino melodramas, the X-Files (even though I hardly understood it), the Highlanders (the electricity man, we used to call it ), the many bloody depressing Japanese cartoons & Arabic songs of the importance of parents & the consequences of losing them...
These old gems:
Learnt so much Please share what you remember too.