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From age 38 to 45 I lived in a one-room cabin with no plumbing or electricity, or traveling on horseback camping. I truly felt it was the most satisfying time of my life. Our own efforts provided everything we needed, directly, instead of the indirect route of modern life. Carrying water from a spring, outhouses (didn't relish THAT part) picking berries, hunting venison, drying/canning meat, gathering wood to cook (and heat) on a wood stove, riding horses to the mailbox....it was quite a life. I felt I had "found myself".
But, that was for a person of "relative youth". I could never do that now (age 61). I'm so glad I did it then, though.
Don't scare me - I'm 60 and planning to do something sort of close to that in the near future. LOL
I have a question for all you who would like to go back and live before now: how many of you are from a minority group? And if so, would you still like to go back to that time and live?
I would never change anything in my life no matter how good, bad, ugly or indifferent.
I was born when I was for a reason, my life is as it was and still is for a reason and I will die when it is my time to die.
Sometimes when I'm having one of those hectic days when the car won't start, the DVD player won't work, and my water gets shut off because they're digging up the street, I yearn to be back in the 1800s. After the Civil War of course, I don't want any part of that mess. I start daydreaming about the 1870s-1880s where I'm either panning for gold out west or on a cattle drive. I see myself at a campfire with a plate of tasteless beans whilst my horse is 5 feet away taking a hefty dump and the flies are taking turns licking his droppings and licking my beans. I don't know if its the hunger pangs in my belly or the fumes from his steaming piles, but I suddenly come back to my senses and rejoin the 21st century where I'm making out my auto insurance payment while waiting for the microwave to let me know when my Stouffer's meatloaf dinner is done.
When I was a kid in the '50s and '60s we had some pretty good-sized snow storms and I loved those times. It was a lot of extra work for my parents but I could stay home from school! I remember in March of 1965 we went without electricity for five days and couldn't even open our front door at first.
Mom would break out the kerosene stoves and hurricane lamps. We had to boil water for hot water and she'd turn the oven on low and leave the door open to keep the kitchen nice and cozy. Couldn't even do that today with electric pilot lights. The cat would lay on a quilt on the oven door!
It was a time of much more family togetherness without the TV or radio going. We'd pop popcorn and play cards or board games.
As mentioned, the generation before them lived like that and died from hard work.
The advantage of being "older" -- not old, just been around for awhile -- is that I did live in the past: the 50's, the 60's, the 70's, the 80's, the 90's, and now the 21st century.
There are things I'd like to change about the present, but I prefer to live now (while appreciating the art, music, and literature of the past).
Not really, in fact I feel I belong in this time and era. I was born in 1987, just turned 30 and feel very much like other people born in the later 80s and 90s. I hate to have lived in the past, especially more than 100 years ago. Neither would have liked to have lived far into the future. It's a very unfamiliar time and place for me.
So the time I am living in is the one in which I belong.
Basically, most people wouldn't want to relocate to a different time era, I feel that "vacationing" in another time period is more ideal. I would love to visit ancient Rome for a few months, just to see everything for myself. But I certainly wouldn't want to live my entire life in that kind of world. I feel that lack of modern healthcare is the major issue.
I'd like the live in that era. Although the most common response to that is usually "that's because you're a white male", although in 1950's America that wouldn't exempt me from the draft, which often leaves a question mark in the back of my mind. The Korean War was some nasty business.
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