Born in the wrong era?

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That's totally normal!

My brother used to wish he was born in the 50s. He listened to stuff like Johnny Cash and Simon & Garfunkel. He was a hardcore Republican and Christian and he did his hair in a pompadour. I used to joke that he was an old man trapped in the body of a teenager. :)

As for me, I watch a lot of period dramas so sometimes I fantasize about being born in Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries. Everyone was so elegant and classy and wore such beautiful clothing back then! But realistically I know that if I had been born back then, I would have just been thrown into an insane asylum due to all of my mental illnesses. And insane asylums in those days were probably just as bad as, if not even worse, than prisons. Oh well!

yes i feel the same way. i 'm not confortable in this era without moral values. this is the era of selfishness and materialism. everyone focuses on material goods; everyone is willing to become rich and popular and they're ready to do everything to get what they want. that's why i said " without moral values". i miss my grandmother's era. sometimes she tells me of her childhood...when you could breathe a philanthropic atmosphere.there were a lot of disadvantages too: poverty, poor hygiene but people would risk their lives to help the others.do yuo agree?

I grew up in the 80's and it was amazing. I was born in 1972 so I was the perfect age to enjoy it all. I wish I could go back and do it all again for the times were magical.

I wish I was a teenager in the 80's, as well. Instead I got stuck being born in the mid 80's. :P

OH my, lululu same here. Things where held more sacred say 100 years ago. Life was about the family.

I'm fascinated by the '60s. Everything seemed so much more interesting back then when women looked like women and the men like men. I've watched the old TV show "Dark Shadows" on DVD and I like to imagine myself living in a little village on the coast of Maine, where there were no cell phones, no internet, no satellite TV...a time when life was deliciously mysterious and people actually left their homes to socialize.

1920s or 1800s

Yeah, I feel the same way. You know, with the climate changing and the "Boooooom *We all die*" thing.

I know what you mean, I feel like I should of been born in the 1920s-1930s

I think it's normal. I think I should have been born in 1960.

Oh yeah same here.

i think i should've been born on 3050 :)

I've always felt that way, I love the 80's and have been loving 50's things more and more. I always look like I came out of another decade. I hate this era, I don't really like anything after 1990.

i feel like i was born the wrong time as well i wish i was born in 60s or 70s so i can live in the 80s and early 90s

I feel as though I should've been born on the early 1700's. Maybe it's just the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean," but something about it make my stomach turn full with knots. They had so much freedom, and adventure, and love. I'm writing a story, and it's a fanfiction of Pirates of the Caribbean, and I envy the main character. She is exploring the seas every night with her true love. Every night, I pray to God, that he'll take me away from here. Don't get me wrong, I love it in this era. I love computers, IPods, cellphones, TV, but I would give everything away but my family to live in the 1700's and have have freedom where you can sail the seas, where you can become a true pirate. This comment has my heart going thup-thup. I cry nights on end for this reason.

i have always wanted to be born in like 1935 and be a teen in the 50's. there's something about the vibe like in movies. but honestly, i couldn't see myself living without all this modern stuff. it's not like i really long to be born back then. i'm perfectly happy with living here and now but i sometimes wonder...

I would have liked to have been born in 1920 so I would be in my prime from like 1935 on.

Hiya,

Yes. I’d love to live in either medieval times -- oh my, the songs! -- or the ‘70s, with all the tough men. If had been born then I wouldn’t have survived, and I know I’ll never get to see what any of it really was like.

So I listen to a lot of old-fashioned stuff, I write old-fashioned stories, I read books set in medieval times, and if there’s a retro programme on I’ll watch it.

As for the crying, that’s usually because whatever I’m listening to is so good.