Do you sometimes wish you'd been born in another time?

Question

No time travel here. Just wondering if there's a particular time and place in history you feel would have suited you better.

Answer 1

I've thought about this often and have decided that despite all of our troubles, this time is the best time for me--especially being female in a Western country.

I have choices even my mother did not have (not to mention my grandmother or her mother); I have a career that was once closed to women; I am marrying the man I choose--not one that someone else chose for me and I am marrying by choice, not necessity; thanks to science for birth control and a healthier, longer life expectancy; and finally, I get to be feminine and powerful at the same time: those terms are no longer mutually exclusive as they were in my mother's time.

If I was given a choice, now is the time I would choose.

Answer 2

I like your question, and want to delve in the possibilities it offers.

Going back to centuries past might be something everyone would enjoy for a short duration, but there might be consequences if it truly meant going back to the reality of that time period.

Modern conveniences and especially medical advancements have been unheard of in the various time periods of centuries past. So, your chances of survival were dim.

What is going on today is a generational tug of war. Older generations recall a time in America when the end of W.W.ll created a magical experience and all the modern conveniences were new and exciting. They were a little less complicated than they are in this time period. Those from that generation who are now in their golden years remember a better time in America, a time not hindered by long working hours or over burdened households.

In this new era, everyone is in a rush to get nowhere. Test out what I just said. Ask anyone racing in an automobile with a cell phone in their hand...ask them what they are in a hurry about. Chances are, they are doing something highly insignificant.

So, knowing what we had and lost, it seems these times are reflecting the remote past when people were more uncivilized and when mobs ruled. In many ways, we are living in a time period that has a combination of many other time periods from the past...like the Dark Ages when people killed other people at whim.

In sum, give me that time period of 1945 to 1959. Ever since, it's been somewhat of a decline.

Answer 3

I think whatever time we might have born, we would still think this same thing at some point in life. Basically living in any era was, is and will be the same. You grow, eat, sleep, reproduce, get old and die. All other stuff is just the curiosity of human mind. So if we think things would have been different had we born a little earlier or later, actually does not make any sense. Mind would still work in the same way.

Answer 4

Yes! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. There is something so compelling about that wild frontier life...I know it was hard, and a lot of people died, but if you look at the good aspects...

-Your house would be the only one for miles.
-You could have a window on all sides of your house and watch the sunrise and sunset.
-You step outside and only see the blue sky all around you, without any buildings to mess it up.
-America was wild and pure, without smog and pollution.
-Families would stick together and cared about values.

I know this is my romanticised view, and there were a lot of hardships back then, but I really feel like I was born in the wrong generation.

I will just try to make the best use of my life in the place God put me!!

Answer 5

Right now were at the best time of our lives. In 100 years people are supposed to leave planet earth and go to another planet. So were basically the last generation of people on Earth. It's weird to think about considering the fact that Earth is 6.6 Billion years old.

Answer 6

Yeah I kinda always wondered what it would be like to be a kid in the 50's or 60's or 70's. They seemed so much cooler than the 80's and 90's (which I grew up in).

Answer 7

I have waited for a question like this, thank you. The time and place would be after the creation of this planet, when every flower was new and the oceans, you get it and to be privelaged to be chosen as one of the human beings who could touch and be blessed to experience the creation that is known as Earth, a few days or weeks after. That would be a joy to me to behold

Answer 8

I wish I was born in either 1930 or 1958.

Answer 9

Yeah....sometimes. I wish I could have lived in medieval times. Like castles and knights. No dragons and wizards since those things don't exist. I would have been a warrior king. :)

Answer 10

i love the time in which i was born i just wish i was born a few months early so i was similar ages 2 my friends and could go out clubbing wid them :(