Young Writers Society

I do all the time. I really feel like I should have lived in the 19th century. Life today is all about what you want. Sleek new gadgets, cheesy celebrities, pressure to look perfect, people demanding MORE MORE MORE right now. Life today is all about immediate satisfaction in 2009. I find myself thinking all day about what life was like in the 18th and 19th centuries, when life was simpler, people were more charitable and honorable, and hard working. Sure, there were problems at that time, but really, I think I would prefer living in that time, with no knowledge of the technology today.

Anyone else feel like this sometimes?

I feel like this all the time - although I don't want to go back to the 19th century, I just wish I had been born in the '50's. I know I would have loved being a teen in the swinging sixties. I look back at my mum's photos from that era and wish I could be there, wearing the clothes, listening to the music and living a slightly less demanding life.

So, yes, I sort of do get that feeling.


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You guys too?

I feel like that all the time. Especially when something bad occurs, or something I see that I think it wouldn't be like that in a long time before.

I wish it could be like that...

Some aspects from that time I wish were still here. ^^ Like manners! Carriages.. balls with sweeping dresses and the way they used to talk! Jane Austen... But, um, health-care and the possibility of being penniless and living in poverty back then... nah..

I get what you guys mean though. I'm the hopeless romantic who'd love to meet a Mr. Darcy sometime.

Yes, yes, yes! I constantly do feel so. Vonika, you are right when you talk about modern times being all about simply trying to get what you want, and nothing more. The meaning of hard work and making a difference to others' lives is all but extinct in this time, when meaning something to someone is as simple as getting them what they want.

I just wish I was living in the eighteenth century as a sailor-- the great, rigged, majestic sailing vessels, the crisp ocean air, the freedom of the water...

Romantics Unite!

~Vox

I tend to enjoy finding the dark side of history if only for my writing, so no, I really never think I'd have liked to be in a different time.

And have you seen the medical problems caused by corsets? It's enough to make you loose all interest in them.

I have always wished that.

I miss the days when modesty was what men would look for.
Where ladies were ladies. Not school yard whores.
I miss those times when no one was the same.
When every little girl, for her prince, would wait.
I miss the days when virginity was a prize,
And when men didn't cheat on their beloved wives.
Oh, how I miss those times.
~English Class.

(Up above was a on-the-spot assignment that I had to do for Project Jubilee in 6th grade. It wasn't great but I didn't have much time. We were suppose to come up with a poem about what we were thinking of at that moment. Since my imagination sores, I was wishing about the Victorian Era.)

I wish everyday that Reincarnation in a different time period would be possible. Sadly, nobody knows.

Ah, yes, the Romanticness of living in another century when you didn't have traffic jams or health insurance, hustle and bustle or clean drinking water. Instead you had Mister Darcys and no female suffrage, carriages and starvation, manners and arranged marriages, corsets and breathing problems, parties and typhoid.

Admittedly, we have lost values that were more prevalent in those times, but if you read something like Chaucer, you can see that it doesn't neccesarily get sweeter the further back you go.

Plus, half the best books hadn't been written, half the best music hadn't been composed and films were nonexistant.

It's true that many people look for instant gratification, but I don't think that's something that just popped up recently. Back then, many people would marry aristocrats simply to be wealthy. Isn't that the same thing?

I'm happy to be born in this era. There's a lot of conflict and superficiality, but those two things will never, ever go. I mean, I've recently witnessed one of the greatest presidential campaigns in American history. The country overcame racial and gender prejudices to seriously consider an African-American and two women to govern the nation. It's not like prejudice has been eradicated, but this was a -huge- step, considering how things were only half a century ago. There are countless other people and events that have occurred recently, and I look up to them as inspiring.

There are many amazing things about this time that we live in. It just takes some effort to find, but hey, we all know that the things we have to work for are always cherished the most, right?

Time period? I feel like I'm living in the wrong universe XD

Not really. I can't see anything wrong with living in this time period. Why would you want to live in the past, with all kinds of nasty illnesses and poverty and all that? You should just concentrate on living in the present, not dwelling on what could have happened if you'd been born in some other era.

Although... I've always wanted to live in a fantasy world with dragons and magic. Oh, and hot princes.

magnusbanefan13 wrote:Although... I've always wanted to live in a fantasy world with dragons and magic. Oh, and hot princes.

Ditto.
I'd pick a different world over this world any day.

Yes, sometimes. I wish life was simpler. But really, if you think about it, women were always oppressed all throughout history, and only thought of as equals until just recently. I'm not all that into being oppressed.

I dig indoor plumbing and refrigerated food and beverages way too much.
It'd be neat, though.

silverSUNLIGHTx wrote:Yes, sometimes. I wish life was simpler. But really, if you think about it, women were always oppressed all throughout history, and only thought of as equals until just recently. I'm not all that into being oppressed.

Actually, in ancient Egypt women held a lot of rights. It's pretty interesting to see how that got altered until we got rights again.