Were you meant for this era/decade?

[Barb Gordon]

A lot of times it seems that I should have been in a different time, seriously...blame my mom,lol. So, I was wondering, does it ever seem to you that maybe you weren't meant for this time period? Like, maybe you would have fit in better in the 50's, 60's or 70's...or maybe even earlier, like in the 16th, 17th or 19th centuries?

Barb^-^

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

60s for me...I definitely share the same attitudes with the hippies of yore...

[Captain Caps]

I was totally meant for the 80s, fer shurr!

I want my Valley Girl, I want my "Dynasty", I want my "Breakfast Club", I WANT MY MTV! (WITH THE EMPHASIS ON THE "M". No "Real World", No "TRL", not even Beavis, Butt-Head or Julie Brown. Just straight on 80s music videos. I would give my left hand to get VH1 Classic)

Sincerely,

John "Captain Caps" Kilduff

[Barb Gordon]

A lot of times it seems, and my mom thinks so too, that I would have been better off in the 1930's-40's....and maybe even the 18h and 19th centuries in England. I'm a huge big band, jazz, Frank Sinatra and Big Crosby fan. I adore the clothes that they wore back then, and if I could find something like what the girl's wore back then, I would seriously wear it now. I also really liked England in the early 19th century. I think the dresses that they wore were elegant and simple, and what they did everday seems nice too. True, I would probably go mad with so little to do, but having tea, walking in parks, riding horses and going to balls sounds like a fantastic day to me.

Barb^-^

[Failure]

I think I'd fit in well in either the decades of the 2010s or 2020s. Dont ask me why, it's just a weird feeling I have. ;)

Otherwise, I think I'm a 90's person. None of the past eras has seemed too appealing to me.

[Terminatah]

I'm with Failure. Mainly because I definitely appreciate the technology of the present. If anything, I'd like to see as much of the future as possible.

I'd be so bored in the olden days. I'd probably die early in a swordfight of sorts.

-Terminatah

[redDragon]

Sometimes I think I would fit much better as a guy in the medieval times.....lots of sword fighting :D

But otherwise I fit pretty well in this era......internet and technology kick ass.

~Certified Net Junkie

[Jack]

I dunno, I know I wouldn't be bored if I were living in another time period because I wouldn't have the present to compare it to. I'm sure jumping from having cable and the internet to a time when letters/telegraphs/telegrams were the only form of long distance communication would be quite a shock, but if I were born in that period, and knew nothing of todays modern convienieces, I would probably marvel at how advanced technology was getting. A black and white TV set with a fuzzy picture would be exciting and new if I had never had a TV before.


Jack :D

[Brian Cruz]

I often wish that I was born in the 30s or 40s. The only problem would be avoiding those darned wars...

[Psycho Fox]

Originally posted by Brian Cruz
I often wish that I was born in the 30s or 40s. The only problem would be avoiding those darned wars... Uhhh don't forget the depresion unless you wanta work for Capone but that would be late 20's - early 30's

As for me 60's when money flowed freely, I'd buy up all the farmland that now are condos so by now I'd be the riches man alive :D

[Momijii]

I'm going to say my era is just about to begin as for my decade it would have to wait a few more years to happen.But a century to pick from would be the Shogun era.

[Jedigreedo]

I can't really think of an era I belong in... well being born in earlier 80's might've been nice. :D

[Calhoun07]

I sometimes think I would fit in some time in the future better, but at heart I know I am a perfect Gen Xer so I guess I belong here.

[ccffan01]

We got a 24 hour Cartoon channel what else do we need.

[RogueMartian]

I'm with Terminatah and Failure. I would have been better off if I had been born in 2001 instead of 1981. Its amusing to think of the past as an idyllic time, but I'm into reality when it comes to history there was less technology and sanitation. Clothes were not that special. If I was seriously into fashion, today or the future would be a better time to be alive since we have so many more options. I like this time okay, but I would prefer the future just so I can see as much as I can.

[Mattashell]

I often think I would have liked to have lived at just about any point in the 20th century. But as the sayings go, "There's no time like the present" and "now will never happen again."

The point I guess is you look at the past and think "I wish I could have been a part of that." The key is the see what's happening and be a part of it, and to make things happen. We are all capable of beginning movements, and setting trends. It is up to us to see what needs to be done and do it. It is up to us to make this "our" time.

What disgusts me about the slacker image, and the gen-x label is the lack of motivation, on the part of my peers, to do so.

Matta

[DR. BELCH]

--if I was meant for any decade. I feel like a deposed god of some sort, forced to walk among men and see how bloody imbecilic and barbaric they are. In any age I'd probably feel just the same. Technology seems to be more a tool for spreading the idiocy than enlightening the masses....

[Karkull]

I'm curious, but I'm probably better off where I am now. I'm sure that I would have been killed as a heretic in any other time period!

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

I think I was made for the fifties. Why?

For one thing, just plain white t-shirt and jeans look good on me. ;)

But really, I dunno why, it's just a cool decade. I've learned all the stuff that made the fifties cool, so I'd fit in well. Besides, I enjoy some remnants of thier culture.

And also, people were nicer back then. Really. I'd like to see a time when people would say hello to people on the streets and not think it weird.

[Calhoun07]

And also, people were nicer back then. Really. I'd like to see a time when people would say hello to people on the streets and not think it weird.

People are still that way in small towns, but I agree that people today either take each other for granted or severly lack manners at all. Even getting people to say "please" and "thank you" is a real chore sometimes.

[Failure]

One of the reasons I wouldn't want to go back to any previous decades is because as a minority, I don't think I'd be accepted by the general populace. Civil rights and cultural integration has come along a huge way in each succeeding decade and one of the reasons why I look forward to the future is because I think social conditions will continue to improve. Idealistic? Maybe. :)

[The Guitar Slayer]

Originally posted by Calhoun07


__________________________________________
quote:
And also, people were nicer back then. Really. I'd like to see a time when people would say hello to people on the streets and not think it weird.
_____________________________________________

People are still that way in small towns....


That is a load of bull crap right there. I live in a town of less than 13,000, and I've had more crap than I can stomach. I leave the day after graduation and ain't ever coming back to NJ. I've been beaten and left to literally drag myself to help. The people here in small towns are inbred to be nasty, kinda like pitbulls. That happened to me when I was 11, done to me by other 11 year old kids. I left to enter private school. Girls like me (smart, non cheerleaders) have been given death threats. My small town has some really nice recurring sex offenders, too, so yeah, people in small towns are real nice.

Sorry Cal, you hit a raw nerve there. But...nothing is like it used to be, not even small towns. There is no such thing as a good town like Smallville. Small towns are worse than farm country or the city; farms, nobody does anything strange, so it is noticed when something goes wrong. Cities, there are cops everywhere. Small towns are ripe for crimes....I think Sherlock Holmes said something along the same lines....

Any rate, I'll post my answer in a few minutes to Barb's question.

[Nightflower]

I can slightly relate to Guitar Slayer's angst. I don't live in a small town, but I do live in an offshoot that's rather distanced from the rest of the town because of the greenbelt. Being so far away from everything and being isolated seems to alienate the youth. They become bored, and then mean. Well, that's my theory anyway. Also, you can't draw a wide variety of people from a small population, so people are more prejudiced and intolerant. Internet nerds, book nerds, art nerds, drama nerds... not welcome here.

But that's only from my experience.

Was I meant for this era? Very much so! The early decades of the 20th century seem simpler, but there'd be less opportunities for someone like me (female and a minority), and probably more prejudice. And...gasp! There was no Internet! :eek:
I think the current times are pretty optimistic and not as bad as the media makes it out to be. Technology makes life more luxorious, and people are more open to certain lifestyles(Homosexuality, premarital sex, etc).

[Failure]

Wow, I'm really sorry to hear that GS. A lot of small towns are a like a double edge blade, if your image stays within their ideas of what they conceive as "normal" everything should be fine and dandy. If you step outsdide the "normal" things could get awful hairy.

[The Guitar Slayer]

Well, I think I belong in the 1960s. I don't listen to any modern music, and the books I like were written by then or during that era. Morrison, Hendrix, and Joplin were alive, Cream was still together, and the word 'disco' did not exist.

Lot of real peace. Sure, the drugs helped a little too much, but face it, my generation is spoiled rotten. Until 9/11, we were only concerned with the next pop album, the next Britney appearance (what won't she be wearing next). For a moment there, we cared about life outside the American pop machine. Now we're back to normal, as shallow as ever.

We protest war for reasons we don't know or even have. 1960s, people were dying for nothing, and we had something to rally against. My generation is too materialistic for me.

I wanna go to the original Woodstock of 1969, not the mess of 1999. I wanna smoke some pot before it became illegal. (Why, I don't see the reason. You cannot die from smoking too much pot in one sitting, like you do booze. Cigarettes and pot are on the same level to me.) I like the clothes, the incense burning, everything about the 1960s.

[Vin]

I've always thought about this question and it's so ironic that I see it here. I, personally, think the era I was meant for was the '50s. I mean, today, I'm kind to people, polite, etc. and it's such an oddity that peers automatically label me as "gay." Which is not true, but I don't think there's anything wrong with people who are. Anyway, I just would have liked to live in a time where things weren't as corrupt and unkind as they are today. Maybe I'm living in a fantasy world, but I'd love to live in a somewhat simpler time. Sure, things weren't easy back then, but today, everything seems so complicated. No one takes the time to enjoy things anymore.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

Originally posted by Vincent Benenati
I've always thought about this question and it's so ironic that I see it here. I, personally, think the era I was meant for was the '50s. I mean, today, I'm kind to people, polite, etc. and it's such an oddity that peers automatically label me as "gay."

Why? You're happy and nice. Is that not "gay?" ;)

[Vin]

Originally posted by Leaping Larry Jojo


Why? You're happy and nice. Is that not "gay?" ;)

Well, I'm not what you would call "happy," but yes, that's the original definition of the word "gay." I mean I'm respectful towards others and treat people with respect. That comes as a shock that not everyone is nasty these days.

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by The Guitar Slayer



That is a load of bull crap right there. I live in a town of less than 13,000, and I've had more crap than I can stomach. I leave the day after graduation and ain't ever coming back to NJ. I've been beaten and left to literally drag myself to help. The people here in small towns are inbred to be nasty, kinda like pitbulls. That happened to me when I was 11, done to me by other 11 year old kids. I left to enter private school. Girls like me (smart, non cheerleaders) have been given death threats. My small town has some really nice recurring sex offenders, too, so yeah, people in small towns are real nice.

Sorry Cal, you hit a raw nerve there. But...nothing is like it used to be, not even small towns. There is no such thing as a good town like Smallville. Small towns are worse than farm country or the city; farms, nobody does anything strange, so it is noticed when something goes wrong. Cities, there are cops everywhere. Small towns are ripe for crimes....I think Sherlock Holmes said something along the same lines....

Any rate, I'll post my answer in a few minutes to Barb's question.

Wow. Sorry to open a wound there! I know there is no perfect place in this world. Hell, even the small town I did come from in Minnesota recently had one of the most brutal murders peformed against a school girl that puts anything I've seen in Kansas City in a rather tame light. And I wasn't talking about crime or sex offenders, really. I was just talking about people are more bound to greet you even if they are strangers in small towns than in big cities. I don't mean to imply that people are better in one part of the world than in another, just differences in mannerisms and comfort levels in greeting strangers. That's all. I was saying that in a response to a post about saying hi to people on the street and not being considered wierd. It's been my personal experience that people are more open to that in small towns than in big cities. Nothing more was implied.

[CrazyDude310]

I without a doubt was meant for the 70's and 80's....too bad i spent most of my childhood in the 90's.

[Lucky Bob]

First off, let me just say that I am happy to be where I am, and I probably won't be changing it for a very long time.

That said.....

I'll have to go with the Buffoon on this one. I like the 50's style, including the cars, music, food, and friendliness. Of course, on the downside, the TVs would only have two channels on at certain times of the day, as Dad has frequently told me! I wouldn't mind living in the 40's either, if only for the Big Band music.

[Spooky05]

wow..there are alot of people here going for the 50's era. personally, if i could go to the era i want, i would have to change my gender. which really wouldn't be that bad. i think it would be kinda cool to be a knight in shining armor. i'd give prince charming a run for his money. ;)

other than that, i'm happy right where i am.

[Jack]

Assuming I could survive childhood (I have no idea how advanced asthma medication was before the 1980s), the 40s and up sounds ideal. Perhaps being born in the mid to late 30s so I could be old enough to remember most of the 40s.


Jack :D

[Pilmedium]

I can't imagine living in the past, with a bad family and nothing good to do during free time. I also think the future would be annoying because advancing in technology seems to be happening for no reason other than to simply advance.