Living in the past
By Kandase
@Kandae11 (55131)
March 15, 2018 9:15am CST
What is this fascination that I have with the past? The movies I prefer to watch, the novels I read are usually set in the early centuries - from the 19th up to the 14th. - not surprising that my favorite subject in school was history.
Even though I love reading about life in those times, I would never like to wake up one day and find myself actually living in the past. Modern living, the freedom and independence women have gained over the centuries - I would never want to give these up and go back in time.
If I am forced to - the furthest back in time I would go would be the 1950s. It must have been cool being a teenager back then - the duke box, rock and roll, bobby socks and twirly skirts.
It isn't possible, I know, but if you could go back in the past, would you want to? Which time period would you prefer and what would you really miss from modern living?
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@mlgen1037 (29886)
• Manila, Philippines
15 Mar 18
I would like to go back to the late 80's and 90's because kids had more freedom and are carefree. It was fun hanging outside and play like there is no tomorrow.
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@mlgen1037 (29886)
• Manila, Philippines
15 Mar 18
@marlina yes. Missing those days when kids can just have personal interactions with each other.
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@Kandae11 (55131)
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15 Mar 18
@migen1037 I agree with you. There is an epidemic of child obesity because of lack of exercise and too much fast food.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
19 Mar 18
@db20747 Yes, we also called it a jukebox over here. In the sixties, they had the mini ones that fit over a table in a restaurants. I think that we were able to get three songs for a quarter.
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
16 Mar 18
@Kandae11 Lots of good memories from the 60's music.
I particularly remember the summer of 69
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
15 Mar 18
Anytime when life was simpler, when violence, school shootings for example were non-existent. I think personally the 60s and 70s were great times.
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@snowy22315 (181955)
• United States
16 Mar 18
I liked the 1960's they were good years..well if you were a kid. I think maybe not too bad for adults either, but it depends where you were living.
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@allknowing (137553)
• India
16 Mar 18
I do not think there will ever be a phase in one's life where everything has been hunky dory. Having said that I would not like to trade my present for the past.
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@allknowing (137553)
• India
16 Mar 18
@Kandae11 You are right there. We do handle situations differently based on past experience.
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
15 Mar 18
I was a teen in the 60's and we were rock and roll, and we had bobby socks but not so much the twirling skirt. I like growing up in the 50's, loved college in the 60's, had my children in the 70's, and moved all over the states and Canada in the 80's. I like this era, I'm old but happy...and i don't move anymore.
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@ptrikha_2 (47062)
• India
16 Mar 18
@Kandae11 in 50s India was recovering after partition and had to rebuild after colonial rule stretching 200 years.
But I hear people then were fuller with enthusiasm than us, even with much less resources.
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
18 Mar 18
@Kandae11 I was born just after world war 2 ended, I certainly hope there will not be a war ever again. The president in the US scares me, he wants to start a war just because he can...
@Tampa_girl7 (50581)
• United States
15 Mar 18
I would love to experience the 70's again.
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@andriaperry (117131)
• Anniston, Alabama
15 Mar 18
The roaring 20`s! I have periods of the past that I love more than others. Some say that is because we also lived in those days, out past lives.
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