Would you rather live in the past than today or in the future?

there wasn't fewer diseases, they just had different ones, syphlus killed you, c-sections for women having babies killed you, pneumonia killed you, there was no computer, no videos, no tv you washed your clothes by hand you bathed in a wash tub your grandmother carried buckets of water in for the house work some places the water was so dirty it killed you people walked 10 miles back and forth to work or school most people didn't have more than a 3 grade education husband's battered there wives and children and that was okay incest happened in the family and everyone pretended it didn't happen you didn't buy your home you built it no let's talk about going for an operation and the pain killed you, cause there was no anesthetic, nope I would not want to live in the past, I admire those brave people that did, I wouldn't even want to go back as much as 30 years ago no thank you.

i am acknowladge that life in the past the price maybe a little cheaper than now,but the quality of the life and the modernization is not so good as now,if you think want to go to the past time,can leave the world without enternet or the mobliphone and many technology,and let me try ,i am prefer to live in the nowadays more than past days.

Hmmm, great post! I don't know because I'm so used to living in what I know, I'm not sure if I would like it in the past. Of course, I am a major history lover and so, if I knew that I could try it out for a little and zap myself back whenever I wanted, that may be fun ;-P

Definately the present! Although the past could be easier,I still like my present life! For me,I seldom think about the past,or future,since past has gone,and tomorrow has not come.So, leaving at this moment is that matters to me!

It depends on the changes in the future.

i would love to live in today,beacuse i can enjoy the better life !

even with all the advancement in technologies, I would still love to live in the past and what your grandma says is one reason for that. Even my grandparents, my parents too had it easy compared to us. I wont say life was a cakewalk for them, but the stress level and expectation from life were less. The city was more beautiful too. Sometimes I see old pictures and I cant recognize the roads, as I see them today. They were so much wider, greener, less congested and people walking by seemed so content with the gentle pace of life. Few women worked coz what the men earned was enough for the family and that meant children were better looked after. Technology was less advanced and that meant the simple pleasure of having to do things yourself and that kept people more active, agile and healthy. Moms and grandmoms had time for elaborate recipes and with no TV, evenings were spent with the women chatting and the children playing nearby. No isolated couch potatoes in individual coops (which we call apartments). Neighbours knew each other coz they actually had time to interact. Oh! those golden times. How I wish I could go back to them.

For me, yes. 4 years ago I became disabled, and lost my ability to talk or walk [from ALS], so I would give anything to go back to the days when I had my health. I didn't appreciate my life then, but boy would I appreciate it now!!

i would choose to live in the early 1990's because that time the pollution is not as harmful as it is nowadays and the global warming is not very painful as it is today. i do not want to live in the future because i know that the future is not good. by that time our planet is very much ruined and food is scarce.

i'd like to live in the future. i don't have much good memory of my past. i have to say it was quite a hard time for me to live through. but those hard things teached me a lot. now i am studying hard to make good preparation for my future. i believe my future is brighter than now. so i wanna live in my future. :)

I would like to live in the 1800s. I would miss a lot of the technologies of today, but I think it would be worth it.

When I was younger I always wanted to live in the Victorian times but only if I had money! As I have got older I have become more content with living in the present. Yes, there are some negative issues which you brought up like diseases and I think that the lack of morality is a terrible thing and what we are doing to our environment but all this is called 'progress'. I can do without telephones, microwave etc., but they have become useful tools of the present. I think the 60s was a great era too. I love travelling so for me the present is perfect!

The secret of life is to do our best Now.When we live by this rule,we guarantee a happy past and a successful future. But the trick is to remain in the present.Instead of dreaming about the past and future,create them by doing you best now.

first of all i think its just great to be alive , in any time ofcoarse maybe thats perhaps because i cannot picture not being alive :P but living in any time period would be hard or easy(easier) depending on circumstance to the individual in consideration any time period would be bad for the sickly weak poor etc but the haves would have an easier time in the same periods. i honestly dont know if id rather be in a different time than the present, but if i did it would probably be the past since i obviously know more about history than the future and that could benifit me more than going to a time i know nothing about. tho idk if i could live in any time w/o my computer and some other luxeries

i would like to live in the present because that is what God wants me to do and He puts me in this time period for a purpose... and i am happy enough with my life and what i have at the present...

I think the idea of living in past actually gives some immense happiness. but i live in present. I also try to visualize what can be sired in future after this situation.Sometimes i think more about future. But my idea is to live in present.

I would rather live in the future because there soo much that awaits for me in the future.

I am looking forward to see the future. I don’t like the current situations, and yes, it was better back then but we had less technology back then. However, I think the future is unavoidable to face, and the present time is unavoidable to go through. We cannot change the past, we might still make some mess in this present time, but perhaps we can still solve current things for a better future, so I’m waiting for the future with some hope and wishes for the better life and situation.

It's easy to see the past as an idyllic time when things were simpler. For most of us that's bcause we ewre younger and our parents had all the responsibilities instead of us. I bet if you asked your parents they ould smile a wry smile and wish back to the days when THEY were children. I think it's just something wired into us to hanker after a simpler time or way of life. The reality can be quite different. In the 1940's you could die of a disease curable by one course of antibiotics today.

In any times, there are some lucky and unlucky peoples. Lucky peoples feel happy and prefer to live at that time, others are opposite. It is normal. To me, I prefer to live in reality. Life is a course, no matter environment is different, feeling of people are same.