Is there anyone here who feels they should have been born in a different time?

Question

For example; I should have liked to live between 1795 and 1850.. great dresses, beautiful houses, carriages, handwritten letter with a wax seal, balls, horse riding, being accomplished... (given, of course, that you could chose an ideal situation.. and also forgetting that we're on the internet right now...)

Answer 1

Yes! Believe it or not, many women wish they could live between that time period you specified (Romantic period) because of all of those attractive and quite appealing things. Men like myself however, often dream of living during epic periods like the rise of Rome... Ancient Greece... even to go back to the World Wars. Individuals often even see themselves as "apart" of today's society because all of their hopes and dreams is to live like their ancestors in a time of greater simplicity and hope...

If I personally could go back in time in human history, I would go back to Ancient Rome. I think living in the empire and seeing civilization grow into empire would be quite amazing.

Answer 2

I've always thought it would be really cool to live in the glory days of the Roman Empire, if I were a man, and reasonably upper-class. I could freaking meet Aristotle or Plato! Either that, or in the 17th century, when physics were being revolutionized. Or a military engineer or a paratrooper in the second World War, but that comes about less often.

But then, when I think about it, I like electricity and Civil Rights, showers, toothpaste, physics, medical advances, MP3 players, et cetera. Today's society lets me have short hair and wear jeans and tank tops, be whatever I want to be and, most importantly, has lemonade cheaply available in delis across the developed world.

I rather enjoy living post-feminist movement.

Answer 3

yes, I would have been an awesome 60's filmmamker,free love and sex,birth control pill using protester and target of police brutality, fighting the powers that be ,but I was not even born yet or I would like to have been living in the US or Europe as a man with my wife who was my property that I could beat and rape whenever I pleased cause, I could marry a rich one and everything would become mine the man and I could expect a clean house,a good meal and physical or oral pleasure everyday,or I could beat her and put her ibn an asylum and get a new one train um how you like um , what a wonderful life I would have had as a normal misogynst of the victorian era

Answer 4

Yes I should have been born in April 1955 instead of November 1955 and then I wouldn't have to wait until I was 65 to receive my Old Age Pension.

Answer 5

Its a universal feeling from time to time but highly romanticised. Using your example, yes it would be marvellous to experience life in the period you describe but how about the down side to the period, abject poverty for the majority of the population, the short life span and the (then)incurable and incredibly painful illnesses, child mortality, need I go on? Which century would you prefer?

Answer 6

No way. I was a teenager through the 90's and I loved it. So glad I missed out on all that glam/punk rock of the 80s.

Answer 7

Think I'd have liked to have been in my late teens/early 20's in the 70's.

All that free lovin' going on and it just seems to be a pretty cool century.

Although growing up in the 80's was cool for me :)

Answer 8

I would have loved to have been a teenager in the 50's,i love the music,clothes,cars etc.

Answer 9

No