Question of the Day

[ayoub]

Given the choice, which era would you wish to have grown up in?

Comments

[wingswithwar.livejournal.com]

the next one.

[electricsoupie.livejournal.com]

seconded!

[delphaicdragon.livejournal.com]

I'll third that. Though given a choice between ONLY the ones that have come before? I love hippy clothes. :D

[cmerun12.livejournal.com]

For all it's faults, I still prefer the one I did grow up in.

[jeremyb.livejournal.com]

I think any era is what you make of it. I see advantages to my father's, and his father's, and some disadvantageous. We have terrorism, they had World Wars. You win some, you lose some.

[wiltinwickwitch.livejournal.com]

Actually, I believe that I did have some choice, this time, and that I chose to be born female in the second half of the twentieth century, when things were getting good again (financially and socially) for women. I was born in 1952, the year the witchcraft act was repealed (bonus!) and I got to be a teenager in the sixties. We had free love if we were so inclined, but it was before AIDS; illegal drugs if wanted, but they were less horrific than those peddled now; good legal drugs if needed, vaccinations, climate and political consciousness and lots of marches to protest (even if it got us nowhere) free water and the Clean Air Act when I was a kid, some great literature, the chance to communicate with the rest of the world in our lifetime.
- oh yeah, and great music.
(out of all the ages that I can remember)Suits me.
love and blessed be
xxx

[voldelange.livejournal.com]

Middle Ages! i love it! :)

[f-l-i-r-t.livejournal.com]

if you weren't one of the plebs it might have been nice, otherwise I would imagine quite gruelling of an existence, no?

[voldelange.livejournal.com]

i believe it depends on me to make my life nice and i would have found a way no matter which class i would have belonged to ... plus i think the rich ones were being more unhappy then the simple women ;)

[f-l-i-r-t.livejournal.com]

I guess I look at it as historically the 'simple women' were worked hard, abused, raped and not allowed to just live a happy, naturistic peaceful life. The money was not what made it better, it was the class. Or the freedom it afforded those in it. I definitly don't think money in any generation or time period = happiness, but I do think money, or status allowed one more freedoms to find their own path and happiness.

Interesting either way. *friendly smile*

[voldelange.livejournal.com]

*smiles back*

well... there still are women that are treated the way you mentioned, probably not so many as before,but i do believe there were happy people back then too...and at any time... and belonging to any class... and i'll tell you why...

because a couple of years ago i met a homeless old man, that couldn't walk and was standing on the sidewalk asking the ones that pass to pity him and give some money, but he did it in a unique way: he was saying jokes... i was with a friend and we talked to him because he asked us to buy something for him... what he said was for us to enjoy life and be happy... he was all a smile and a true smile that made him beautiful... it didn't change my view over life too much,because i'm someone that was raised to believe that people can be happy if they really want to and it's all in them...he was a proof of it... i'm not saying that he was happy all the time,i don't know that, but then he was... and anyway we can't be happy 24/7, happiness it's something that comes and goes, we just have to cherish it went we find it, no matter how short it is...

that's why i said i would have found a way to be happy even then... even through the hardest life... because i can! we all can if we really want to! ...it's just easier to stay in shit and do nothing, that's why there is so much misery...

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

I'll take Florence, Italy, circa late 1300s/early 1400s.

[markbuster.livejournal.com]

I like this one, but ideally 5 or 10 years earlier.
By the time I was a kid, the hippies had given up on peace and bought expensive homes in Napa, Elvis was a fat drug addict, and the new plauge was hitting. Then again, have you been to a kid's toy store lately? The stuff they have is amazing!

[crescent-fresh.livejournal.com]

i think if i'd been born about ten years earlier i'd have been happy. before a college degree became the equivalent of a high school diploma. although for formative years, you could do much worse than the 90s.

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[reynold.livejournal.com]

I was born 900 or so years too late...

[pi-girl.livejournal.com]

Definitely the 80s! <3 Madonna!

[evergladesqueen.livejournal.com]

medieval!
*hugs*

[empatia.livejournal.com]

I would love to live in Medieval times, I just don't think i would have made a very good "Lady"

[eternalxwhisper.livejournal.com]

The one with Dinosaurs!...

All jokes aside, I'm not to sure to be honest. I do enjoy Jane Austin books and the time period for them so maybe 1700/1800's?

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

A great time period to choose!