Dunno if this has much to do with science....

But have any of you ever felt like you were born in the wrong time? Like you shouldn't have been born in this day and age, but years earlier?

 

How much earlier do you wish you were born, 20? 40?

I'd go from anything +30 tbh else you going to land smack bang in the 80's.

You can haz internets and ipods. What's exactly is the problem you are having with being 19 in 2011?

 

Its weird, I guess I just like older time periods more and wish I could go back to the 60's/70's to experience what it was like. Sure, 2011 is alright, and maybe I'm just attached to those time periods, but I'd prefer living in that time. I think its also the feeling of missing out on a lot of stuff, even history, because you're born years later and hear older people talk about their experiences from when they were a kid living in that era growing up.

 

The 60's are definitely a period much romanticised about these days. But don't forget it also depended where you were living in the 60's. Attitudes were different then, and it was just off the back of three major paradigm shifting scientific discoveries, so there was also this honeymoon period between man and nature. I must admit I often feel a bit frustrated that I wasn't there to see man go to the moon by only a few years. Man has never walked on the moon in my lifetime, yet he still has!

First quantum mechanics and relativity, then chaos theory. It's difficult to imagine the buzz going on about that in those days, from the perspective of today's world where we take things like this - me instantaneously talking to a complete stranger on the other side of the world via a computer - for granted.

Whatever decade we were all born in I think we should all be grateful, even though there is so much shit in the world, war and pestilence, we are still fucking lucky and know knows maybe this is a good as it will ever get. Maybe technological eras/enlightened periods are rare. Will man use his intelligent and dexterity wisely? Surviving in the real world with nature is no mean task, but has it's plus points too.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE9iYlNYPFY"]YouTube - Ween - Hippy Smell

 

sometimes i wish i had never been born

 

I've got both.

Often, I think I would prefer to live in a more simple albeit rough time. The Wild West, the Roaring 20s, the 40s; I feel like these eras could've made a better man of me.

And I'm kinda pissed I missed the punk scene of the 80s, and was too young to fully appreciate the 90s.

Also; I've always dreamed of exploring and adventuring when I was little, and it wasn't till I grew up that I realized we have the surface world pretty thoroughly mapped.

But I think overall, I'm just happy to be alive; even if I wish I wasn't at times, or I wasn't at this time.