You ever feel like you were born in the wrong time?

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“Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time,
Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?
Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme
Beats with light wing against the ivory gate,
Telling a tale not too importunate
To those who in the sleepy region stay,
Lulled by the singer of an empty day.”

--William Morris, Prologue of the Earthly Paradise, 22-28

I should have been born along time ago... maybe far back like Medieval times. I'm serious... it sounds much more appealing. I can ride a horse no problem... put me behind the wheel of a car and I go into a panic attack. Also I like the idea that back then you're main focus was on survival... not all the superficial stuff that is what living life is about today... in America at least. I also like Medieval weaponry of all variants... it's a slight obsessive interest of mine. Also I like the idea of battles being played out with melee weaponry, martial styles, and arrows... there's more valor there than the lazy ass push of a button that is today's warfare

I would have liked to be Japanese as well... Samurai are friggin awesome!

I can list way more reasons why I'd have liked to be born back then... but It's never going to be a reality so why bother

I always joke that I was secretly swapped at birth with an Asian family. I love Asian culture (especially Japan, but I was obsessed with China when I was younger), most of my friends are Asian, I have a lot of "Asian" mannerisms, I even look Asian.

But as far as time zones go, I identify with the 60's and 80's way more than my current generation. I also love classical and baroque music ^_^

Aside from the lack of air conditioning, I probably should have occurred about 90-100 years ago. Or, I should have occurred in Ireland. Either way...

I always feel like I should have been born right around 1890-1900. I think I'd be really content spending my teens and twenties following along with (and maybe contributing to) the technological marvels of the 1910s and '20s.

... a momentous achievement for which human civilization should feel chest-burstingly proud ...

Myself, there are a number of locations and eras in which I could have happily lived ... North America before the arrival of Europeans ... the late 1940's, after WWII ... the Western frontier after the Civil War ... Polynesia before the arrival of European explorers ...

Simpler times, all. And greatly romanticized in my mind, undoubtedly.

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I am 40 now and can say the 90's was a very good decade for lots of things. I loved the casual trendy look of that decade.

"I wish I was born/ a thousand years ago..." --Lou Reed, "Heroin"

No.

I rather enjoy the modern age. If anything, I wish I could jump a few hundred years ahead.

In Western societies, in days of yore, "different people" got committed to asylums and if you were anything other than a white, heterosexual, Christian, middle to upper-class male, you were screwed. Oh, and I'm glad I don't have to die from a "horrible diarrhea death."

Meh.

I sould be born and lived thousends years ago in the ice age, in Europe .When modern man and Neanderthals were living together in one area. I am so in love with Neanderthals , i dont know why but i am . I would like even to be a Neanderthal that time .

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This, pretty much.

I wouldn't mind living in Wiemar during the time of Schiller and Goethe, however, but that would probably only be for a few years

there was no ice age 1000 years ago believe.
but if there was, maybe that is why fred could not keep the cat out for the night.

Nice, I love Futurama.

I wish I was born in the 50's, so I could enjoy the best music ever in the 60's, 70's and 80's. It makes me want to cry because I wasn't alive for The Beatles or Jimi Hendrix, and today computers and autotuners are ruling the charts. I mean I love my computer and games consoles but I would trade it all to live in the good old days.

Me too, but for slightly different reasons. My siblings were all born the mid to late seventies & if I was born in 1981 I would be closer in age to them & my life might actually make more sense. Also, I've always had a lot of older friends & if I was born in 1981 I would be able to truly be friends with them. It would be nice because then I would be able to get along with people my own age better & perhaps I might even be happier too. Also, the 80s & 90s were pretty cool, I especially like the 90s & watch a lot of shows from that time period. Another time period I like is the 1960s, they had really good music back then & I've always really liked hippies. However, the only thing I'd miss if I was growing up then would be the internet. I love the internet.

As a Baby Boomer I was born at exactly the right time to enjoy the longest period of peace and prosperity and freedom that the world has ever seen.

Yes I saw the original Mickey Mouse Club and "Leave it to Beaver" on the TV.
I lived in a Midwestern town that was 99.9% white and totally safe for kids.

Then I lived in San Francisco during the golden hippie years. Right on the beach in the area called Sunset.
I drove a thumping great muscle car with a 450 cubic inch V8 but gas was only 25 cents a gallon.

Then I had the sense to move to Australia and marry an Australian.
Thank god for that because America and Europe are going downhill fast.

I live in a mud brick house in a rainforest just outside of Melbourne. All I can see from my windows are trees and ferns because three sides of my property back onto a National Park which can never be built out.

Yep, I have been very lucky.