I can't think of anything good?

Question

I don't like living in this time period at all. I wish I lived back in the 50s. I can't think of any good things about now. Everytime I hear something bad many times I will think "That didn't happen back then" and I am even more upset. Please help me out?

Answer 1

I have always wanted to live back in the 50's too... I know exactly what you mean.

Answer 2

What makes you think the 1950s were any better than now? They had murder, rape, war, pain, hunger, poverty, robbery, greed, abused children, and all the other negative stuff that has plagued humanity for thousands of years. We have many more medical and technological advances now than they did then--you wouldn't have the fun of the Internet if you had lived back then!

Your first problem is that your fantasies about the 1950s do not match up to reality. Nostalgia makes everything seem better than what it was.

Your 2nd problem is that you are wasting your life longing for something that you can never have. You might as well be wishing that you lived in Middle Earth or in "a galaxy far, far away," since those are equally unobtainable. You are living NOW, not back then--deal with it! There are lots of good things that are worth living for. Make a list of the good things in your life, things you own, people you've met, cars you've driven, pets you've loved, whatever. Then throw your TV set away. Seriously, pick it up and throw it into the nearest dumpster, because all the newscasts you've been watching have made you see nothing but negativity in the world. Well, here's a news flash for you--they don't show any good stuff because they think it isn't interesting and it won't get high ratings! So find your own good stuff to think about and get out of that fantasy world.

Answer 3

First, horrible things happened then. You're comparing the real now with the ideal of then, not the real then.

Heck, back then, you wouldn't have been typing into a computer that puts you in communication with people all over the world.

I mean, how cool is that?

There are many things that are better now.

Whereas cancer used to be a death sentence, more and more people with cancer live longer and longer.

People are (on the whole) much more tolerant of others than back then.

We know much more interesting stuff (that we've only recently come to understand) -- about the world, other critters, the rest of the universe, about humans and how our minds and brains work.

Horrible stuff used to happen then (there hasn't been a time in history when some people didn't think things were worse, others think things are better).

A lots of stuff wasn't acknowledged.

Back then, victims of child sexual abuse had to keep their mouths shut, felt they were the only ones, and that there was something wrong with THEM.

Today, there's help for such people (and more such children get help to cope with their experiences).

Few women had any choices about how to live their lives and what to do.

And when they had the bad luck to marry a batterer, they were stuck with him for life.

We ain't what we oughta be,
We ain't what we wanna be,
We ain't what we gonna be,
But thank god, we ain't what we was.

Hope that helped.

Answer 4

Truly we are living in the most demanding time of all human history. The pressures of living in Satan’s world are increasing as we get deeper into the time of the end. It is also heartening however. At Luke 21:28 Jesus said after outlining things that would happen during this time "But as these things start to occur, raise yourselves erect and lift YOUR heads up, because YOUR deliverance is getting near.” Yes, these are troubled times. But study of the Bible fortifies and encourages us to look forward, not back. What is ahead of us is much better than anything this world has ever offered. (Psalms37:10-12, 29; Revelation 21:3,4
Ecclesiastes 7:10  Do not say: “Why has it happened that the former days proved to be better than these?” for it is not due to wisdom that you have asked about this.

Answer 5

I lived back then. got married in the 50s and it was really quite nice. there was a large middle class, where i was. We ,teens, could walk all over town, no fear of being mugged, raped or kidnapped.There was no dope in my world. Schools were safe. And this very close to Hollywood. No tiny town in the boonies. Women for the most part wanted to get married. We were a bunch of stay at home moms. Its true, bad things did happen, but on a very much smaller scale. All of the civil rights stuff has really also opened the "right" for bad to be acceptable. e-mail me if you want.

Answer 6

If you lived back in the 50's and you, as a woman, had a better time back then than now, then you can ask your question, if you really have a question.

Answer 7

I love the 50's but would not want ot live then. There was still the same type of crime and social problems, they just were not as publicized. Plus, as a woman, I have more freedom now then I would have then. Can you imagine not being able to study whatever you wanted in college because it was not what you, as someone who was going to get married and have kids, were supposed to study?

Answer 8

I doubt that you would have liked being a woman in the 50's. Women got very little respect back then.

Answer 9

as like the falsify goes in my family goes $hit happens try to get over it the only thing is that it happens much more often and in a much bigger and fare worse scale but listen thing must/have/and will get much worse before it becomes any better but you must understand that no-matter how bad things get there will always be good in the world no matter how small and even thou it may a trouble world you must Cherish that good no-matter how small and insignificant it may be so that it may grow to a much grater good and love

Answer 10

things did happen then. it's just glossed over. like i know of a woman who got pregnant, her family sent her away to have the baby, the baby was adopted out, she came back, and it was a normal thing to do, cos unmarried women didn't have babies. there was still prostitution, murder. and my dad is a throwback to that era, and what i find is that it's really repressing, because he believes things should be a certain way. and it makes me wanna break out. be grateful for what we have, it's not that bad. there are still things to make you laugh as well as cry. and that's life.