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MrsPeel

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...go back in time..... what time/year would you like to go and why?


if a Bill & Ted time machine or back to the future car was available....oh there are so so many times I would love to go....
Would LOVE to meet Bach, & Leonardo Da Vinci... but I reckon I would LOVE to go back to the 1930s so I could also wear the fashion in those times.... probably the 30s would be my fav period but there is the war... :( mind you, I could meet Churchill and if I could guarantee to be back whenever I want....I could choose the times when no bombings and be ok!!! LOL

what about you?
 
I think the early 60s. Kennedys... John and Robert. Martin Luther King, Jr.

But like you, I think about the fashion in the other eras (like the 50s) always intrigues me. I'm too outspoken for that era, but would love the clothes.

I like that movie Midnight in Paris... to be able to go back in time each night and meet the movers and shakers.

Leonardo DaVinci would be amazing.
 
Hmm... that's a hard one!

I'm gonna say something totally different... I would love to go back in time to when I was born and see what it was like in my family while I was a baby. See what my siblings were like, what the time period was like (late 70's), see my parents when they were younger. That would be pretty cool! :yup
 
scrapsandsass said:
I think the early 60s. Kennedys... John and Robert. Martin Luther King, Jr.

But like you, I think about the fashion in the other eras (like the 50s) always intrigues me. I'm too outspoken for that era, but would love the clothes.

I like that movie Midnight in Paris... to be able to go back in time each night and meet the movers and shakers.

Leonardo DaVinci would be amazing.
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I almost mentioned the movie!!!!!!
would love to meet Hemingway... Frida Khalo!!!!!!! oh my... I think the science should hurry up and make us a travel machine LOL
 
Cath_ said:
1975, i was in so in love, loved life, and high most of time
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awww but you can get that back, you know you have him with you lets just get in sync so we can heal our dis functional brains LOL I'm not sure I would like to go back to my teens, I was finishing secondary school in 1975 ....I was working so hard ... and in countries that had a disastrous time...

Brandi said:
Hmm... that's a hard one!

I'm gonna say something totally different... I would love to go back in time to when I was born and see what it was like in my family while I was a baby. See what my siblings were like, what the time period was like (late 70's), see my parents when they were younger. That would be pretty cool! :yup
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OH my WOrd Brandi, that would be awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
such a great idea!!!!!
you also make me feel so old... I was a teenager, like 12 or 13 in 1970 LOL
because I was born paralyzed and didn't walk till aged 5, my parents always took photos and painted a good picture of what my life was... but still, I think looking into it live...will be something out of this world!!!!
 
I would go back to the early 80s and beg my grandfather to go to the doctor and get treated for the cancer that killed him. My aunt said he knew he was sick, but he was scared to death and didn't even tell the family. He wouldn't go to the doctor (typical male). He died when I was 3, and I have one vivid memory of him. I would have loved to have been able to know him when I was older. He would have been 99 this year.

If that wasn't an option, I would go back to 12/31/92 and try to keep my cousin from being murdered on 1/1/93. His death really tore apart our family in many ways :(

Sorry to be so morbid!
 
I want a time-o-vision. I don't actually want to *live* in the past, but I want to observe. Even just going back 20 or 30 years, I wouldn't want to live it. I'm very happy with the social and technological advances we've made and no desire to backtrack. And if I don't actually have to experience it myself, I'd go back to at least the middle ages and see things that aren't so easy to find out anymore. From the comfort of my couch.
 
I'm kinda with Lorry. My life surely hasn't been easy, but I pretty much got where I wanted to be, excepting illness of course. I like where I am and appreciate the advances technology has given us. Not too sure about the future either, but right here, right now, I feel very happy.
It might be fun meeting lots of famous folks, but sometimes that's like the movie vs the book - things are not always as we see them in our minds eye. Example - Thomas Jefferson had lots of slaves, and the Kennedys were entitled personally selfish, egotistical snobs...
 
Totally slfish but if we're allowed to go back and talk to our selves in the past and tell them/us not to worry about certain things or to enjoy others more, I'd do that.
Other than that, I'd prefer to go forward and see what my kids' kids's kids' lives are like, y'know?
 
I've often thought it would be cool live the life of an Indian... living peaceful off the fruits of nature and it would be quiet the experience to live in a tepee too. But, I would miss the comforts of today's world, so I wouldn't want to stay in that time frame too long. LOL! :-)
 
Hmm. Like @scrapsandsass I'm pretty outspoken (it must be why we like each other, Kimberlee! :) ). I'm worried I'd be too much for previous generations.

If, like others have mentioned, I can observe but not LIVE in the time, then I'd probably want to meet some of my favorite authors. And there are historical events it would be just amazing to see firsthand but afterward I'd like to go back to my home in my time. :)
 
I love the fashion and the pace of the 50's. But I'm not the kind of gal who fetches slippers, so IDK. :P

I wouldn't mind to visit the 1910s/20s...I'm thinking Downton Abbey-esque though! :)
 
It would be so hard to choose!!! Especially it was just for observing, not living. I love that idea @lorryfach I'd like to see what ordinary life was like for ordinary people at any time in history or the future.

If I had to actually interact with the time period, I think I might not venture very far from the present. I'm not very adventurous.

I also love the idea of going back to see my childhood like @Brandi said. I have little memory of it. I have such a bad memory; that's why I have always loved photography and scrapbooking.
 
I think I might like living in the 50s as an adult. Things were prosperous and hopeful and people still had faith in God and good morals. But I love Lorry's idea of watching the past...I'd love to see Ancient Egypt, WWII, the Flood, and other things without experiencing them.
 
Well, a time machine means I can come forward whenever I want! So, I would love to go back to see Cleopatra, and the Romans. Then travel with Jacques Cartier. Head back to England to see the Victorian Era. Then mosey on over to America and watch it be expanded from the 13 colonies to the 50 states. I would love to see the world as it's being defined, as lines are being drawn up creating nations.
 
Cath_ said:
1975, i was in so in love, loved life, and high most of time
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I think most people that are high all the time love life don't they. hehe Move to Washington you can be as high as you want. ;)

Brandi said:
Hmm... that's a hard one!

I'm gonna say something totally different... I would love to go back in time to when I was born and see what it was like in my family while I was a baby. See what my siblings were like, what the time period was like (late 70's), see my parents when they were younger. That would be pretty cool! :yup
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This is such a wonderful idea. Being the youngest I do have some memories as young as two and three but not many. It would be interesting to really see my family. At the same time I would love to go back in time to when my mom was a young girl and see if we would have been friends back then.

StarryEyedDesigns said:
I would go back to the early 80s and beg my grandfather to go to the doctor and get treated for the cancer that killed him. My aunt said he knew he was sick, but he was scared to death and didn't even tell the family. He wouldn't go to the doctor (typical male). He died when I was 3, and I have one vivid memory of him. I would have loved to have been able to know him when I was older. He would have been 99 this year.

If that wasn't an option, I would go back to 12/31/92 and try to keep my cousin from being murdered on 1/1/93. His death really tore apart our family in many ways :(

Sorry to be so morbid!
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Not morbid at all. I think any of us would choose to go back and warn or help a loved one.

bellbird said:
Totally slfish but if we're allowed to go back and talk to our selves in the past and tell them/us not to worry about certain things or to enjoy others more, I'd do that.
Other than that, I'd prefer to go forward and see what my kids' kids's kids' lives are like, y'know?
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I would love to go back and keep myself from making some of the stupid choices I made growing up. They say hindsight is 20/20 and boy do I wish I would have listened to those older and wiser than I was when I was a youth and young adult. I also wish I could go back and do motherhood over now that I myself am older and wiser and understand better just which battles really are important.
 
for me, summer 2013 lol. Seriously that was an AMAZING summer full of new friends, new experiences.....it was just golden and happy and flowy
 
If I could only choose one era...1940's. Rosie the Riveter. Churchill. Eisenhower. Patton. MacArthur. The Greatest generation. America strong and as one.
 
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