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Actually... no, i'm pretty happy with the decades I grew up in ... born in the 80's and spent my teen years in the 90's. I had such a great child hood, great parents, great location, and great friends... wouldn't have changed a thing!
I dont know about being born in a different time period, because then I wouldnt have alot of the technological and scientific/medical advancements that we do today, but it would be nice to live a certain time period of my life in a different part of time, like live out my 20's in either the 70s or 80s, or go back in time and live my teen [10-19] years in the 90s ,etc.
I would have liked to have lived in the late 1800s in the US. I believe that people were freer then. It was dog-eat-dog, but I'd throw my hat in that ring. Fortunes were made then. Industries were born. Cost of living was low, taxes were low, and America was moving forward.
Want to be 18 years old in 1940. Join the Army Air Corp. Fly fighters shooting up Japs and Germans.
Then fly the X-Series planes as a test pilot. Then fly the Appollo missions. Then fly for TWA or PanAm and do as many beautiful stewardesses as humanly possible.
.............the stews are a long, long way from what they were back then....sigh.
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I like being in my 20s now. I feel that we are in the "future" (in the sense of the beginning stages of extremely advanced medical and technological development), but we are still have remnants of previous eras that still affect us. It's great to see how things have changed in my own lifetime (from the minority of the population having internet in 1993 to the majority having internet today). Society is changing rapidly and setting the tone for the next great revolutions technologically and socially...
I like being in my 20s now. I feel that we are in the "future" (in the sense of the beginning stages of extremely advanced medical and technological development), but we are still have remnants of previous eras that still affect us. It's great to see how things have changed in my own lifetime (from the minority of the population having internet in 1993 to the majority having internet today). Society is changing rapidly and setting the tone for the next great revolutions technologically and socially...
That's funny because I lived at a time when NO ONE had computers, everyone had dial tone phones. But you'll see stuff way ahead when I and others older are gone...
I was born in the 50's and was a teenager in the 70's and believe me it was not all that. I hate even thinking about it and I had it good! It was just ugly, boring and bleh. I wish I was born sometime after the 90's, the world today is much more interesting to me and I'd love to be young enough to grow up with it.
Sometimes because I enjoy camping and living like that, I think I could go way way way back, I could give up even electricity, modern home, phones of all kinds, television, cook and eat outdoors, stay warm and socialize around the fire -- but I'd like to keep my laptop.
The stone age has a certain appeal, not too many people, no worries about global warming unless your campfire got out of control and burned the whole forest. Not a lot of laws, living was simple back then.
Sometimes because I enjoy camping and living like that, I think I could go way way way back, I could give up even electricity, modern home, phones of all kinds, television, cook and eat outdoors, stay warm and socialize around the fire -- but I'd like to keep my laptop.
The stone age has a certain appeal, not too many people, no worries about global warming unless your campfire got out of control and burned the whole forest. Not a lot of laws, living was simple back then.
But you'd be living just like a wild animal. If you're not sleeping with one eye open, you're looking for food. That can be awfully exhausting. Just look at Survivor. They have food all around them but they're hungry all the time, tired and sleepy, only because they have to catch their food.
Definitely you'd never gain a pound.
The other thing is, you'd believe in superstition because you don't have an understanding of science. So if there's lightning, you'd sacrifice the last deer to appease the lightning god over feeding your family. Or do some other crazy thing because you don't know any better.
I do agree there is a sense of freedom, simplicity, and being out in nature that is unsurpassed. Those Amazon tribespeople and others living in New Guinea...certainly look very happy.
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... born in the 80's and spent my teen years in the 90's. I had such a great child hood, great parents, great location, and great friends... wouldn't have changed a thing!
