Have you ever wished you were born into another time or place?

Question

I would have loved to live during the Victorian times. The world was a lot slower then than it is now, and it would have been fascinating to grow up when men first learned to fly!

Answer 1

I always wish i was born in another time and place

Answer 2

Don't think you are alone. Or that nobody else feels that way. It happens to all of us humans.


I think this is a very common human feeling. We daydream, we visualize ourselves in books we have read, in circumstances we see on TV or in films, and wonder what would it be like to be in that time, or indeed even be that person .

The human mind seems somehow programmed to visualize this fantasy. It may be that is how we learn. It may be that is how we empathize with other people in other cultures, through analogy to our own lives. It is the mystery of "...what if....?"

When our lives seem so commonplace, so hum-drum and boring, we imagine ourselves in a better circumstance--far away from our current problems or disappointments. We believe that living somewhere else, some time else, as somebody else...might make us happier.

Of course, in a sense, it is the very root of storytelling and creativity. The psychologists call it "confabulation"--the ability of the human mind to create scenarios and stories out of our experiences. It is part of us--from the first storyteller sitting around the fire in a cave millions of years ago....to the novelist or screenwriter or playright working today.

Answer 3

Yes actually, pre-civil war South. I think I would have enjoyed myself very much. I would have enjoyed the barbecues and the outdoor gatherings as well as the gentility of the time. Now all you folks who are going to thumbs down me for this because of slavery go on. I didn't say I would like to own slaves, I said I would like to have lived in the South then. I am from the South and would like to have seen it back then before cities and planes and cell phones and cars and television etc. I would have liked the plantations with their sprawling yards and gardens. I would have liked to have seen Atlanta before the war when it first began to thrive and bustle. I'm not saying I would have been a Scarlet O'Hara, hell I might have been a saloon owner or a "companion" to some lonely gentlemen. Who knows. The point is I would have liked to have seen the South before the war changed everything.

Answer 4

Definitely!! I wish I was born in Jerusalem (I'm not Jewish tho) and was able to see Jesus as a small child. I have always wondered if he had to be disciplined. I would also like to travel behind him and see how he spoke to thousands of people (when you add the 5,000 men's wives and children) from a mountain top and still be heard!!!! I wouldn't mind seeing those fish multiplied either. If I couldn't come back to this time period, then I would stay close to his mother for protection. (I'm not preaching, just wondering about an historical person.) I would have made a good sister for him to have!!!

Answer 5

Yes, Ive always wanted to have been born in the early 1900s. The Victorian age with the invention of the automobile, and the titanic (even though it sank), and all that good stuff. Or maybe even farther back then that.

Answer 6

Yes, part of the English gentry in the Victorian Era.
The glamour at the time when the sun never set on the British empire...sigh

Answer 7

Almost all the time. I'm tired of not having a place to fit in and having to fight a lot just to be who I am. It would either be some time far in the future (hundreds of years) where people are much more accepting of things their not now or some planet other then Earth altogether.

Answer 8

Yes. I wish to born in a poverty area but not in poor family. I wish to born in very rich family with the mentality of helping needy people.

Answer 9

Nope, here and now are just fine. Sometimes wish I'd been born with a healthier body, though.

Answer 10

I wish I was born in the distant future. That would be so ace. Flying cars, no disease.