Being born in a different time period

[Adiabatik]

Just a little food for thought that I've been pondering about.

Do you feel that had you been born in a different time period that your life may have taken an alternate path?

Do you feel that you would have made the same choices and decisions in life no matter when you were born?

I've always wondered where I'd be if I had been born 10 years earlier, 20 years earlier, 50 years earlier.....or 10 years later, etc. :shrug:

 

[CowlHood]

Wish i was born during a time of FTL travel and space exploration...

 

[bluebosss197]

OP, I've been right there with you in your thought process. But for me I wish I could have switched places with one of my grandparents. I'd have loved to have been born around 1890-1920. Hell my avatar is the New York Central's Lake Shore Limited in Cleveland circa 1937. Art Deco era at it's finest.

 

[leo2hot4tv]

I would have been a gangster like AL Capone.

 

[CobraBob]

We are influenced by our environment and our society, especially in our young "growing years". I definitely believe that being born decades earlier or later can affect our life choices and decisions.

 

[Coiled03]

Wish i was born during a time of FTL travel and space exploration...

This.

 

[Sonic605hp]

Old west for me. Poker, whiskey, and stealing shit.

 

[James Snover]

Don't get me started. I can spend days in a funk over this kind of mental exersize.

 

[Camaro_94]

I would have been a spartan.

 

[Riddla]

Time is a deception our mind makes.
It is also not linear

 

[cobrakidz]

An early baby boomer so I could have enjoyed the 60's as a hip 20 year old.

 

[James Snover]

Time is linear, always. Its rate, however, is not constant.

I say time is real, physicists just haven't figured out how to get a theoretical handle on it, yet.

Time is a deception our mind makes.
It is also not linear

 

[Katy TX5.0]

I don't feel like I would've made different choices but I do feel like I was was born in the wrong decade. Unlike a lot of 30 somethings I don't believe in shacking up with women, I repair my own projects, I left home back when I was 18, and don't care what others think.

 

[wurd2]

The good news is that no matter when and where you're born, the local religion is the true one.

:rockon:

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[Mr.Bolt-on]

I probably would have been born white into a Zulu tribe with Unkulunkulu the Creator God as my Lord and Saviour. The term white devil would have a whole new meaning.

 

[thomas91169]

Well yeah, if you were born just minutes earlier or later your life itself may be insanely different than it is now, even though you wouldn't think a few minutes give it take would mean anything, but it surely does, let alone years or decades.

I'd have liked to be born in the 40s so the war was behind me, and I was too old for 'nam, but getting in my good years while America was still growing so I'd be retiring with fat bank, assets and investments just as America turned towards the cliffs of socialist downfalls.

Or the era of space travel and the expansion of humans to the stars. A time where distances of thousands of light years are traversed in seconds, ie FTL. Large Capitol ships and whatnot.

 

[jbs$]

My parents lived in a time in which they saw the first air plane flight to men on the moon. In our time we think that things are progressing rapidly, however, by comparison, I wonder. Frankly, I like the period in which I have lived. There has been new technology introduced in the recent decades, but, much of what we call progress is just refinement and further development of inventions that are fifty or more years old.

 

[KurtDog]

I probably would not be programming computers if I was born any other time.

I would have loved to have been in my 20's in the 60's or 70's during the muscle car era.

 

[thomas91169]

My parents lived in a time in which they saw the first air plane flight to men on the moon. In our time we think that things are progressing rapidly, however, by comparison, I wonder. Frankly, I like the period in which I have lived. There has been new technology introduced in the recent decades, but, much of what we call progress is just refinement and further development of inventions that are fifty or more years old.

You're actually pretty spot on. We haven't invented anything truly new save the Internet, and even then if you look back far enough it's still based on the same fundamentals as the Telegraph, just way more data connected to way more people that's displayed way better. Most things are innovations or advancements of an existing idea. I think Snover posted a link that was pretty much that exact notion.

 

[stroked_stang90]

Ive always wondered what itd be like to grow up in the 80's Hair band era days. I would have loved that.