Do you ever feel like you were born in the wrong decade?

[demthorshie]

All the time unfortunately. I was born in the mid 80s but I actually wish I was born in the 60s or early 70s so I could have been a teenager in the 80s. Man, the 80s were a magical time to be a teen from what i've researched! I hope that there's an 80s variant to the afterlife that I can go to hehe.

[Jacen]

Guys, the funny thing is if you go far back into the past, the new/advanced bacteria you bring would kill those around you (think pilgrims and native americans) or too far in the future you could get sick although they'll most likely have a cure.

[joannekwan]

I'd like to visit various eras in the past, but I'm too fond of modern technology, science, and conveniences to spend the rest of my life in those times.

[carloswebcomic]

Trust me, the 80's sucked so hard, that the 90's seemed like an utopia.
Constant threat of nuclear war, everything had guitar solos and synth drums, computers were stupidly slow and limited, and everything, yes EVERYTHING, had mullets and bushy moustaches.

I guess the 80's made me appreciate what we have now.

[Kayke]

I'm surprisingly content here. As a woman, I really don't think I'd like to go to most of the past

[RewindLabs]

I feel like I was born on the wrong planet.

[Starfestival]

I feel like I was born in the wrong century.

[Kura]

I really wouldn't want to be born any further back than I was.

Honestly wish I was born closer to now's times, where being an interracial kid isn't considered a bad thing and sexualities and transgenders are (generally... not always) more open and accepted. Though I guess if you went reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally far back in some cultures it wasn't as big an issue as it was after colonization and what not, but then life expectancy and dying from stuff that's preventable today is not really appealing so...

[demthorshie]

This, DEFINITELY this xD

[AnnaLandin]

I might daydream sometimes about hanging out in Constantinople during the reign of Justinian (only can we please skip the part with the bubonic plague turning the city into a disgusting slaughterhouse) but then I think no, that'd be nice for a week, but then I would want to go home to where there's running water and modern medicine and where I as a woman have voting rights and the right to own property and choose who - or if! - I marry, and what religion to belong or not belong to. The endless arguing about religion would get on my nerves pretty dang quickly.

Like, imagine having serious period-cramps in an era where painkillers weren't as readily available. Imagine giving birth in an era when the most popular method of making sure a woman survived the ordeal was a really hard prayer. Imagine getting serious tooth-pains in a society where dentistry was basically a set of pliers and some good luck.

And, as mentioned, the bubonic plague was a thing, and it liked to come back every 15-20 years and wipe out as many people as it could. And the bubonic plague was seriously a horror show. During the worst outbreak in Constantinople, they had to dig massive burial pits straight across the Golden Horn, and they still couldn't fit all the putrified bodies of the dead inside, because literally tens of thousands of people died. Some of them were just left... slowly liquefying in the streets.

I'm just gonna stay here in 21st century Sweden and count my blessings.

[mariusthered]

lol this thread made me giggle. ( was born in the 70's) and before some of you go running to a time machine give my comic a read because bits of it are based on the 70's . mostly the bits about getting in trouble and the different attitudes from parents and teachers.No groundings or loss of cell phone just lots of trouble and whacks with a slipper if you stepped out of line. (then you had to face going home!)

personally I used to want to be around in the 50's when Elvis and rock n roll was at it's height.

As for other parts of history well I would like to pop around and "tinker" with history.

[SpavVy]

Not really, I feel like I was born in the right decade but the only thing I cannot stand about it is when I see stupid posts that are all like "HASHTAG 90's KIDS!!"
-_-

[mappypaint]

I do feel I was born like 20 years late. I was born early 80's but I feel that I should've been born in the 60's since all of the stuff that interests me are in the 70's. All the music I like are those Saturday Night Fever types. Heck even the car I drive is 70's, around a decade older than me.XD

[thomasfallaeriksen]

Have felt like that from time to time. Most of the things I like the most are older than me. Was born in 1987, but when I was younger I often felt that I should have been born around 1950 instead. It would have been fun to experience all the things I like when they was new. I would love to have been able to walk into a car dealer in the late 60's or early 70's and drive away with something I can only dream of owning now. Or go to a concert when all of my favourite bands were at their creative peak. But that probably wouldn't always have happened so easily, since I live in a country who were lagging a bit behind.There is also a chance that I would feel the same about an earlier period if I were born back then. But back then I wouldn't have been able to do what I do now, so I'm pretty happy that things turned out this way after all. I still get to drive around in cars from the 60's and 70's and see many of my favourite bands live. And I can choose to just avoid all of the annoynig junk that I don't like about the past and only focus on the good things.. Plus I get everything that was good from the 90's like the Super Nintendo and Playstation 1. And of course the internet. And I get to feel nostalgic about all of it.

[Wolven_Sister]

Lol I know what you mean I find it very annoying too.

And I hope you didn't take it a wrong way by what my first sentence in the first post ^^; I only meant that I'm grateful for being born when I was, not trying to highlight it at all <3. I wasn't trying in the least to push the 90s decade on anyone since the 90s weren't all that great, no decade is perfect. <3

[jacintawibowo]

I hear this sentiment a lot when I was in historical fashion groups (Victorian-Georgian Era). Usually it's a romanticized desire of "a simpler time" (that doesn't actually exist) more often than not they teeend to be white people fantasizing about these things. A couple of people here mentioned stuff like "as a woman" or "as a non-white person" they don't like the idea of going to the past because of rights and rules at the time. I'm also not fond of going to the past (as a non-white lady!) and I've heard the same feeling being shared in black groups as well. They openly expressed not wanting to go back to a time as late as the 60s or 70s.

[Wolven_Sister]

Maybe I should've made this into a game instead ^^; I think some people are taking this a bit too seriously. Though I don't have a degree in history, it's pretty much common sense that older eras weren't generous to most people around the world. I merely brought up this topic for harmless fun and for us to fantasize regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion, etc...I wanted to see how much people's imaginations would take them without the worry of those constraints during those times. Since fantasizing goes with the emotion desire, there's not a lot of logic when we indulge our fantasies hence why my first post was so insane haha! :')

I'm sorry if I didn't make this clear in my first post, and I'm sorry for any miscommunication. I'm also sorry if I offended anyone with the making of this topic, this wasn't my intention at all.

[mariusthered]

and if anyone wants to swap i'll be happy to be 20 years younger

[Asherrrr]

I'm glad to be living in 2015. The past always moved a little fast for me.

[KSlinger]

More the wrong country than the wrong decade. I'm waaay too into this age of information to give it up for history. Don't get me wrong, history is ace, but I don't fancy the idea of going back in time to live and die within the 30 mile circle I was raised in. Go back too far and life it short, brutal and ugly, and you'd never know otherwise.

Never felt at home here in England though. Don't know what it is but it's just not for me.