If you could change the time you were born in, would you?

[raccoon]

I used to think I would. I used to think I'd like to have been born in the late 1930's. The reason being that that was a small generation and it was easier to get a job in the early '60's than in the '70's.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. not if you were black or a woman or gay or a minority of any kind

[raccoon]

2. You have a point there.

Well, I am a woman, and in the time I came of age (early 1970's) women's opportunities were still quite limited as compared to today.

[dysfunctional press]

3. my parents were both born in 1938.

my mother on st. patrick's day, my father 5 days later. it worked well for them- too young to be too affected by ww2, with plentiful jobs and opportunities. neither of them went to college- but my father went from construction laborer(shoveling concrete) to operating engineer(running cranes and heavy equipment)in a matter of a day- something that could NEVER happen theses days.

personally, i think that i would have preffered to have been born in the late 40's/early 50's rather than 1961- the early baby-boomers got the best jobs, and it would have been more fun to come of age in the free-love 60's than the polyester & disco days of the 70's.

[wildhorses]

4. yes.

[cobalt1999]

5. I would have loved to toured the world during the 1920's.

So, yes, I think being born around the 1890's would have been cool. Furthermore, it was a time a fantastic change. In a short time, we went from a horse and buggy existence to cars/airplanes/ocean liners/radio/wireless telegraphs. Furthermore, there was little cultural dilution between countries and even between sections of the U.S., so travel would have been much more interesting than it is today.

Downside would have been the Great Depression and a couple of World Wars, but I'd still make the trade.

[The2ndWheel]

6. Yes, to a time with no time

Because it's an illuuuuusion, man.

But seriously, it's an illusion. If I could live in a world without a clock everywhere you go, reminding you of the ticking away of seconds, and never having enough time, I'd take it. I have three damn clocks within 10 feet of me here at work. One on the screen, on the phone, and on the wall.

At least the old clock was round, life and death, earth around the sun, cycles like that. With the digital clocks today, it's just a relentless march forward.

[skygazer]

7. I would change it to about half past 9

I was born before 6 am and I always felt bad about getting my mom up so early. :P

[Joe Fields]

8. yep. next question....

[datasuspect]

9. i'd like to be a well born white anglo saxon protestant scion of wealth during the depression

sipping champagne at the stork club and having to walk over the unemployed on my way back to my park avenue apartment.

[alkaline9]

10. I don't think so...

...I don't know if I'd like to live without the things we have here and now. Certainly living in the past would take away some of the things that bring me joy (the internet, computers, etc). Living in the future is such a flip of the coin, who knows whether the future will be better or worse than today? If we're talking distant past/future, I may not have the evolutionary bodily equipment to survive that time.

If I did live in another time I'd want to have the same parents... because I wouldn't be me without them... of course in a different time they wouldn't have been who they were therefore I wouldn't be who I am... anyway, I think the answer is still no.

[Nikia]

11. A lot of it would depend where I was born and on the circumstances

However, in every era there were times of uncertainty, signs that the world was going in the wrong direction, and general hardships of the age. This is especially true when you look at the lifetime of a person who lives to old age.