If you could be born again in a different time, when would it be and why?

Question

I'd be born in the twenties with loads of money and go to parties!

Answer 1

i would be born in the cave man days because it would be exiting to run from wild animals and i like being pulled by my hair

Answer 2

It is too late for me I am afraid, I am already accustomed to this time. But despite that please consider that being born is starting from scratch, and the only reason you now desire to be born in a different time is that you probably consider your life would be better on a time that isn't your own. Still, that just proves to show that you want to live on another time, because this one does not satisfy you.
Now let us consider that 'who you are' is a collection of ALL of your experiences and nothing else. Being born on another time, it would not be 'you':
1. because 'you' are the sum of your unique experiences..
2. different parents; hence, different genetic self..

If at least we agreed that your "soul" existed and that it would resurface on some newborn in the 20s, given that those experiences that you learn in the twenties would be unique; nothing prevents that that self of yours desired to be born on another time (aside the 20s), maybe the 17th century, maybe the date you were born.
So really, if we look at it objectively, your desire to have been born on another time is a sign of your, and many others' (including myself), frustration of the current experiences you are living.
I would recommend you try to make the best of it in this time in which you are stuck.
And to answer your question: in a time where most of the known world were unknown, so I could discover it on myself alone. A journey not possible in today's overpopulated world.
Hope I didn't offend anyone.

Answer 3

I would have been born at the end of the 30s.
The depression had ended.
Pennicillin was about to be invented.
I could have a more innocent childhood.
Be of legal age for the Swingin 60s, not too old to party in the Disco 70s.
I'd have bought real estate in the 70s and 80s for investment and sell it off today for mega profit and STILL be able to collect a social security check and be dead before the world goes completely to hell like its doing now.

Answer 4

I would want to be born in the 1940 so that I could be in my twenties in the 1960s...simply because the 60s is an important decade in our history and although chaotic it seems wonderful in retrospect. Plus I would do my best to catch a Beatles show and go to Woodstock and march with Martin Luther King Jr..

Answer 5

I would like to come back in the 1600's as Nell Gwyn.
She was a bit of a girl and liked a jolly good time.........not that I'm promiscuous, but I do like a good time too and apart from being mistress to a king and a couple of others, she was also a bit of a laugh!
Here, get your eyes round this brief history:

Pretty, witty Nell :
"Pray good people be civil, I am the Protestant whore" was Nell Gwyn's cheeky retort to the masses pushing around her coach in the mistaken belief that it was that of the Duchess of Portland, the Catholic Louise de Keroualle.
'Pretty, witty Nell' was perhaps the best known and remembered mistress of King Charles II .
She was one of many (there were 13 in all during his lifetime), but she was the least 'greedy' of them all. When he lay dying he begged his heir, the Duke of York, "not to let poor Nellie starve".
In her early teens Nell Gwyn was engaged to sell oranges at the King's Theatre. Her natural wit and complete lack of self-consciousness caught the eye of Charles Hart the actor and others, and Dryden wrote plays to exploit her talents as a comic actress.
She became Charles Hart's mistress, she called him Charles the First, and was then passed to Charles Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, whom she dubbed Charles the Second, and later the King, calling him her Charles the Third.

Answer 6

Definitely NOT during the World War times. How about the 70-80's? Going retro, baby!

Answer 7

i'd be born in the twenties too because all the people in the uk would still be on a high from winning ww1, you wouldn't know about global warning (and by the time it got to it you'd be too old to care), and you would be traditional enough to be decent but still fun loving and go to lots of parties....

Answer 8

Any time between the late 30's and late 50's cause it would be cool to be a teenager in the 50's, 60's or 70's.

Answer 9

I would probably like to be born in the 60's instead of the 50's. I would still have that nice figure I had until a couple of years ago. :)

Answer 10

i think id like to be born in the 30's. so when i was 20 it would be in the 50's. i love the outfits and the men are so gentlemanly. x