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Thread prompted me to enjoy some free time in the "holodeck" Good one to revive!
I once in mid 90s in a work location had an interesting compliment that I adored from a women probably in her early 40s (I was mid 20s) when she said I reminded her of a 1940s type of guy. Not only did I like the imagery but it meant more to me because she was a classy woman.
Well, I do, and if I could rescind all memory of indoor plumbing and the mostly pleasant scent with which the environment is now imbued, initially I believe I would at once tread happily back some one to two hundred years prior to this time.
Yet I do not believe that would solve the root of the problem, which is: I am me (most unfortunately at times it seems). Once at the place I feel I "belong" I would overtime, undoubtedly feel a longing for "those days of old" which were to my imagination so much more inviting than the one in which I now live.
I feel a more enlightened understanding of the predicament is that times and the people in them change very little over the years and there will ever be that sense of nostalgia for times past, for a variety of reasons the most common of which it seems whatever was thought of as good in those times has eroded out much of the memory of what was bad in them.
Last edited by Basiliximab; 04-18-2013 at 11:05 AM..
No, I am quite happy being alive right now. Love all the modern toys.I'd hate to have no plumbing or electricity, although I guess I wouldn't of missed it had I been born earlier though, lol.
I always feel like I "belong" more to the 1940's. Then I think about how lazy I am and how that would not translate well.. even though there were many modern conveniences then, it's nothing like now and I'd probably live in absolute mess and look like it too!
No, because I love the rat-tailed/ Doogie Howser/ Ninja Turtles/ Reebok Pump / Paula Abdul days of the early 90s (1990- December 31, 1992 only). I would not trade those days for anything.
There are certain periods of history that appeal, but then I remember how much I love indoor plumbing, antibiotics and the Internet.
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