If you are to exist in another time and place, when, where and why?

Answer 1

The 1950's for me. Remember the nostalgia of better times, ice cream after church on Sundays, full-service gas stations, pot-luck dinners with the neighbors? Neighbors whose names you actually know? Remember little girls growing up together closer than sisters, wanting to get married at the same time and live on the same street to raise their children together? Remember ladies getting dressed to go shopping, bridge night, party socials? How about good manners? How about appreciating all the modern conveniences? Now I went through all the college-bound, individualistic, career-driven, feminist crap in my 20's and early thirties and I was miserable and hated my life. Now that I have a wonderful man, 2 stepsons, and a new baby boy at 38, I can't think of anything I'd rather do than be the little woman! For real! I love being a stay at home Mommy, keeping house, and getting supper on the table every night. I love it that my partner is also old-fashioned and a superior provider. We didn't carry out a plan to look like a family out of Better Homes and Gardens circa 1950--but it happened and this lifestyle works for us and we're happy! I know there are probably a lot of you younger gals that are thinking--how backwards can this woman be? Well, I had the good college education and the high-powered high-paying career for many years. I also had the big messy bitter divorce and the subsequent string of egocentric boring career-driven boyfriends who didn't last and I'm glad they didn't. My partner now owns his own successful business, but FAMILY is his priority! He actually asked me if I would stay at home for our children. I still work--out of my home--but I am glad to give up all the old pretentions and false ambitions. Why be power and money driven if it gets you nowhere that matters to your heart? I sincerely believe more marriages and relationships would last nowadays if, for instance, women cared how they looked when their husband/significant other came home from work. The man who is providing dinner for the table doesn't want to see you serve it in a t-shirt and sweats, no make-up and scruffy hair up in a clippy. If you love the man, how hard is it really to powder your nose and put on something attractive before he gets home? Make it your business to make him want to be with you--especially AFTER marriage. No take out--actually cook something and put a delightful dinner on the table for the man who is providing such a great lifestyle for us and our kids. If we just did all the little things that matter--don't just make the bed--instead, provide a bower that he wants to get into with you! Bring him a drink and a bowl of snacks while he watches the game! Be cordial and look pretty for his friends. Make him proud to be with you. Show some interest in the things he cares about. In other words, don't just settle or get too comfortable in your relationships. Continue to strive! Little girls were raised to believe in these things in the 50's--you know, that decade before 60% + divorce rates happened? That decade when dates meant dinner and real dancing instead of what they are now--you know, locating our daughters via GPS to make sure they're not up to something bad? Or our adult dates: calculated get-her-into-bed-quick scenarios not helped at all by our unladylike boozing and sleazy bar attire. Whatever the rest of the modern women of today think, I will continue to make it my job every day to show my man and my family by the things I DO that I love them and want to keep them with me. I will stay pretty and attentive for my partner because it really does matter in a good relationship--just like our mothers and grandmothers said it did. I will raise good mannerly children that my partner will delight in seeing at day's end. I will stay faithful because it is the right thing to do! I will create a little piece of the best of 1950 right here in my home every day--since I can't really go back to that simpler time. Hopefully, if I can keep it up and stay sincere, I'll be one of the few with a partner on those porch rockers in my 80's. Just see if I don't.

By the way, my present relationship is a true-blue love at first sight story. When I first met my partner, we were both recovering from extremely recent bad breakups of meaningless relationships. We happened to meet while on a weekend away to clear our heads at the beach. No hanky-panky, just dinner and drinks, then we met for breakfast at his hotel the next morning. Do you know what he told me at breakfast that day? That he was going to romance me and that he was going to change my life. He did--on both counts. I'm so glad.

Answer 2

In the long-term future, definately! Things would be so cool there!! All new technology anyone in this century won't be able to think of or create, and a time traveling machine! Then I would be able to go anywhere! Like in the year 2491! Man that would rule!

Answer 3

Jun 12 1979 approx 1150pm, So I could say those words, those three simple words that for some reason my teenage body could not seem to say - - -

I LOVE YOU

All I had to do was repeat those sweat words whispered in my ear that evening and add just one more "Too".

Regret is a hard thing to live with.

Answer 4

The when and where is a mystery. The why is because we cannot possibly learn all of life's lessons in one lifetime because we are limited by our circumstances...rich, poor, fat, thin, American, Chinese, Catholic, Atheist, etc. I do know that my heart is in the golden era. I must have had a really good life then. This one is good, but it's too hurried, too high tech for my old fashioned spirit that yearns for simpler ways.

Answer 5

i would like to be in south carolina around 1985 and meet the love of my life instead of waiting another 20 years to do so. i guess better late then never but it would of been nice to share those 20 extra years together.

Answer 6

I would like to live in a land where everyone is equal.
no mans inhumanity to man or beast,
I guess this land is in some of our dreams,

Why.......because these things are a daily occurrence and bring misery for the majority in this world today.

Answer 7

I am to exist tonight, around 9pm in bed. It's been a rough couple of weeks.

Answer 8

Back in the days of "Gone with the Wind" cause i like the dresses. You asked! lol

Answer 9

In the era of the Prophets just to live with anyone of them (to be one of their folwers)

Answer 10

i would be in Baghdad the year 1100 because then there would be no Bush administration