Did you ever wish you'd been born in a different generation?

[raccoon]

I used to wish I belonged to the WWII generation (I was born in early 1950's). But not any more.

Things were rough for women then (Minorities too). Another thing, I'd hate to not grow up with the music I grew up with.

[MedleyMisty]

1. I sometimes wish I'd been born in the 19th century

But only if I could have been born into the aristocracy.

I don't know, though - back when I thought that I was still recovering from working at Arby's and thought that forced marriage and not being able to vote and having to have kids (although having someone else to take care of them) and all that would be okay as long as I got to just hang out in a front parlor or something all day doing what I wanted to do, as opposed to being a slave.

But now I have a job that doesn't make me want to kill myself, so I'm more rational and can see that all the rights and freedom I have are worth not owning myself for most of the weekday.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

2. I think sometimes I am 20 years older than what I really am ...

because I would have loved to be a club kid in the 80s. Either living in London and being a New Romantic or living in LA or NYC. I love the culture from that time.

[Phillycat]

3. I wish I had seen Aretha Franklin perform at Fillmore West in 1971.

But I wasn't born yet. :cry:

[Parche]

4. Maybe You Were

Reincarnation?

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

5. Not really

I'm trying to think of a time I'd rather have lived and am drawing blanks. Of course, these aren't the greatest of times - I often wonder if my long-deceased parents know what we're going through and are agonizing over it.

[CreekDog]

16. I grew up watching Joe Montana and the 49ers

That wasn't so bad. Bay Area in the 1980's --gosh, we still had some Republicans here back then (a bunch of reasonable ones even). Now even Walnut Creek has a Democratic registration advantage. Times change.

[ZombieNixon]

6. Does the future count?

:shrug:

[Jimbo S]

7. I was born in 1966

but coming of age in the sixties would have been quite the experience. The social changes, the musuc. How exciting!

Instead I got the greed, jingoism and uberpatriotism of the Reagan era.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Sometimes; but it's the lack of medical care that makes me gladder to be here.

I would love to go back to the first decade of the 1900s.

[Felix Mala]

9. I'm fascinated by the 20's. I read a lot to try and grasp what life was like.

Early years of USA would have been interesting, 1780-1815.

[CreekDog]

18. Let me be snarky here and say what life was like then and now

By standard measures, for most it sucks, for a few, it's great.

That's the way it was, that's the way it is and I hope that's not always how it's going to be.

[AZBlue]

25. I love the 1920's too.

I would have been a flapper for sure.

[Cabcere]

10. Yeah, kind of.

I love the music of the 60s and 70s, so I kind of wish I had been born about 20-30 years earlier - it would've been cool to go to some of the great concerts, I think. :shrug: I dunno, though, maybe I wouldn't have done it then either - I feel like I'm missing out on a lot now. :shrug:

[Debi]

11. My son was born in 1988

I think I would have liked to grow up in his time rather than in the 1970-80's (I was born in 1968).

[triguy46]

12. Nah. Just wish I'd gotten this one right.

[cobalt1999]

13. I wish I was born around 1880.

Witness the Teddy Roosevelt years, the changing of society because of the airplane, cars, electricity, radio. It must have been almost inconceivable to that generation the changes taking place.

Additionally, it would have been great to work on the Panama Canal...the Apollo project of that generation.

[carly denise pt deux]

14. I wish I had been born in the mid 40's

so I could have really enjoyed the 60's....I was a little kid, but I do remember alot of the 60's, but would have really enjoyed being a college student protesting flower child....

[CreekDog]

15. Well I like TIVO

And global warming makes me nervous, so where I am (36) seems like a happy compromise.

[plcdude]

17. Now that I am turning

60 this year I sure would like to be born in 1980's

[DarkTirade]

19. I just wish I'd been born 10 years earlier...

I totally would have gotten in on the video game industry when it first got rolling. :P

[Xipe Totec]

20. I'm told I'm an outcast from XIV Century Spain

And have the face for it.

[rockymountaindem]

21. Pretty much every day

But then, I think, who knows what will happen tomorrow? Maybe this is a fine generation in which to achieve greatness.

[Faygo Kid]

22. I was born in 1951. About as good as it gets.

I admit it. Horrible things happened, and women and black people were discriminated against when we were children, but I grew up in a simple and protected era (with a single mom, which wasn't any tougher then than now), and scruffy baseball was played instead of soccer, and Huckleberry Hound was new, and we didn't sit in front of a computer, but instead came in when the streetlights came on after playing all day outside. And while I am still stunned by the JFK assassination, I still remember the joy of the Beatles six months later. And while I bear the scars of MLK and Bobby, I at least am old enough to remember them, not as picture icons, but as real human beings with messages that we need today. And I remember the first Mercury astronauts, and the feeling of wonder, and working for McGovern in the first election in which I could vote, and Walter Cronkite delivering the evening news, and my daughter being born in 1976. It was better then; it can yet be better now, but the way it will happen, if it happens, is the Internet.

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. Only ALL THE FUCKING TIME!

x(

[Liberal Lassie]

24. In Bible times. You will never believe this but...............

My Aunt traced our family tree and I am a direct descendant of Pontzius Pilat (spelling) and would actually be a Roman princess if I had been born then. My mom's maiden name was Pontzius and apparently only the Royal Roman court were allowed to use a "z" in spelling their names. Very, very rare. Inheritence at that time depended on family lines and education. Romans valued education above all else and inheritance was directly related to marital status and how educated you were. Since I am the oldest daughter in my family and my oldest brother died, I would have inherited spot #11 in line for the throne because I have college. Weird rules back then but the idea of royalty is very cool. However, chopping off heads determined a lot too so maybe it would not be so cool after all. I was born in 1950 so I was a teenager om the 60's and man what a ride! The only arrest record I have is for throwing myself in front of a jet to protest the Vietnam war. All of the world's finest music and being a hippie with a pair of white go-go boots that I kept in my locker because my mom would have freaked. I also had a pair of knee high indian moccasins along with short mini skirts in my locker. My locker was my entire life away from my mom's eyes. WHAT A RIDE! Had tickets to Woodstock but my best friend chickened out at the last minute when we were ready to thumb rides to the concert. I loved the 60's and I would go back in time in a heartbeat.