Knowing what you know now...Is there any other time you wish you grew up in?

Question

I'm with Goldwing.....damn to be alive with Elvis...the Beatles...Man on the Moon....manual typewriter to computer....we saw it all.

Answer 1

Nope, think I nailed the best time..teenager in the orignal rock and roll era, times were calmer, certainly safer, and in general, had a good time in HS...we did so many things that cost little or no money, yet we all seemed to have a very good time of life. We were serious about school (no one wanted to face the wrath of the parents), we had curfews we had to stick to, there were interests outside sex. Yep, wouldn't change it for anything. In my life, I have lived to see soldiers come home from WWII, man walk on the moon, computers and the Internet, lord...such advances in the past 50 years or so...unbelieveable. And, those times were safer...we were not afraid to be out after dark, walk the streets by ourselves, etc. peace, Goldwing

Answer 2

Hell no ! I think I had the best timing, being born in 1949. Grew up with enough of the "safe and sound" 50's to have a carefree childhood, but still enjoying the great 50's music, courtesy of having two much older sisters. Then, my teenaged years were lived to the soundtrack of the best rock 'n roll music ever written, the Beatles, the Stones, and the Beach boys. Life was still pretty safe then - I never had any exposure to drugs, but had enough crazy experiences to make the era memorable - rock concerts, bad boys on bikes, and some parties that are still a happy haze in my memory. I saw the advent of television, computers, watched the first man on the moon during my lunch break at work, and heard the great speeches of JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. as they were spoken. Even here in Australia we were touched by these great men of vision.
My lifetime has seen the greatest changes of all time - my father was born just as planes were taking to the skies, and now I can jet around the world in a day. I can take a photo of my new granddaughter, and 10 minutes later my sister in another state can be viewing the pic on her email. Its all good, and I wait with interested anticipation for the next innovations on the agenda.

Answer 3

Although I grew up in a great era, I've had a fascination for the
late 1800s' west, having visited Tombstone and other old
western towns that made their marks in history. It was a hard
life, and an early death since meds we have today didn't
exist. Most people did have shorter lives due to that fact and
the life span of those times was shorter due to the way people ate, and what was available to eat. I often wonder how the women made it thru the summer heat. Especially
having to bake each week, and wash from big wooden
tubs outside. All while wearing long dresses and petticoats
long stockings and high button shoes. When living down there, I melted wearing shorts and sandals and had to be under the A/C to prevent heat stroke. But those generations
survived, both in the west, and in the east, and points in
between.
I'm glad that I grew up hearing Elvis's music, and seeing
him in person, twice. It's sad that he was taken so relatively
young. And even sadder, that he didn't realize he had a
problem with drug addiction, like so many other entertainers
then, and since. He truly changed the music of the late 50's and there were so many entertainers that have come along since, that he was an inspiration for. If he hadn't, we'd still be dancing to the big band sound, and the crooners who hung onto their microphones. Tho I guess that wouldn't be all bad
either. For I still like the big band sound of Glenn Miller and
Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey.

Answer 4

No, I'm a boomer...born in '51...and a lot of good things have come about during this time. Wouldn't mind doing some time-traveling, though, if it was ever possible! Would love to go back and see my own city, Savannah, back in it's beginning and some of the beautiful old homes and plantations that are long gone. Or the city I was born in up in NY when it was being settled by the Dutch. And I'd love to see what it was like for my great-grandparents when they came over from Ireland and started their lives here in America. Just wishful thinking and curiosity about different times and different places.

Answer 5

For me it was the perfect generation to grow up. Hey! We changed the world. Remember.

I would never have wanted to grow up an any other generation.

We had the best music, the best musicians for centuries. We did not have worry about been raped, robbed and subjected to the violence today.

And we also had a gutsy attitude to stand up for what we thought was right. Look at Vietnam. I haven't seen any protest marches in Aussie, demanding that we pull out of Iraq.

We did have all this psychology rubbish that the kids go for today.

I was pretty upset yesterday, when my daughter, who I have not seen in four years cancelled holiday plans. No details need, but she said to me that we must have "closure", about the incident. I said forget it. I've forgotten, I've forgiven,It's history, do I still feel some pain, yes, but I don't dwell on it. Closure!

Answer 6

No....I'm glad I was a teenager in the 50's (esp. with Elvis)...and I'm glad I got a little of the 40's. I think the 30's were probably fun too...but I was born in 42. I liked the 60's pretty good (that's the last year they made decent clothes ) I haven't really liked any of the other years much.....and they keep getting worse. My "love for life" ended around '89, I think. Things went from technicolor to black and white (if you understand what I mean) Hope it didn't change like that for any of you.OK..Gotta say...I saw Elvis in person too....and once was on his motorcycle at his first house..talked to him and "touched" him. lol...The other time was in Miami at the Olympia Theater. Watta Feelin' !!!!!!! lol

Answer 7

1700-1800's. Sure, life was rougher, but so much simpler. To heck with technology. I could live rough if it meant having something left really untouched by man.

Every see Survivor Man on Discovery Channel? Even in the most remote parts of the world, he finds refuse from humans. I'd love to see the west really wild, America as a wilderness, and the earth as a whole not damaged by our own hands.

Answer 8

I was born at the start of the Fifties, a wonderful time to be a kid! We were the TV generation, but somehow that didn't seem to harm us. That "vast wasteland" provided so many dreams and sparked our imaginations. I know that we must have been aware at some level of what was going on in the adult world. We went to school where the halls were plastered with posters of Kruschev threatening "We will bury you!" Many of us were felled by or died from polio and went to school with children and adults who were affected by this. I was a child, but I noticed things like Thalidomide and the United Nations. Maybe this is true of other children of the Fifties. Perhaps we found more than entertainment on television. Maybe the occasional child was having his or her consciousness raised.

I struggled through the Sixties, when the world was coming apart and everyone seemed to hate everyone although there were rays of hope that said the Bomb wasn't going to drop and we were going to get to the moon. But, the Generation Gap was as real as the Iron Curtain~concepts that carried a lot of power. It was a time to choose sides in so many ways. My choices seemed easy to me. I didn't do drugs. I didn't give in to "free love". I didn't lose myself in liquor. I navigated the maze, missed the traps and made it through intact. While doing research for a story set in 1969, I read a book that states that the Sixties is a decade that never ended for many Baby Boomers. I wonder if others feel that that is true. It also said not to look for the Sixties in the movies or the books but to listen to the music~the music tells everything about us.

The Seventies was full of grief, including losing my maternal grandfather and grandmother then my father in too-swift succession. It wasn't a disco decade for me but one of grief slightly lightened by the science fiction renaissance. I know it sounds odd, but I wish that my father had lived long enough to see "Star Wars". He was such a film buff, and he dearly loved science fiction. He always made sure that we went to every SF film, and he guided me to authors such as Robert Heinlein, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Isaac Asimov. When I watched those films, I kept thinking about how big a smile he would have had on his face.

As rough as those twentysome years were, I wouldn't change when I grew up unless I could take my family with me. Perhaps they would have been helped by modern medicine. My father wouldn't have died just past his 47th birthday. I wouldn't want the past, yet the future looks quite bleak at times. That's not much of an answer is it? Could I take everyone back to the past, where we would all be healthy? You see, I think our family cornered the market on things that can go wrong with the human body. Maybe we all could live happily and healthily ever after somewhere in the past.

If wishes were horses...

Answer 9

I think modern society has turned us all into spoilt softies. I wish I was back in the early 1900s, when society advocated manners, hard work and a to-each-his-own attitude.

For example, during both world wars, patriotism was rife everywhere. Men joined the army and families were taught to save so they could survive. People who escaped the war were taught about toughening up their personality. People were encouraged to appreciate the arts and theatre, not become couch potatoes, as there was no TV back then.

Answer 10

Yes , I had fun in the 50's and 60's too but just like today , everyone was tense about the future . Segregation slowly ended ,saw JFK assassinated, I remember the Vietnam war,Kent State U . Krushev was threatening to blow us all up, people made bomb shelters in their backyard and the only thing that got us through it all was our music, but I don't know If I'd want to live then again. I cried my heart out when Ritchie Valens died because he sang the song with my name ,Donna. I"m happy to be living now.