If you could.....

[Tiff]

I don't think I would want to live in any time past ... I think things for women are better than they ever have been. But if I could go back and observe, I'd like to go back to US Revolutionary times or when they were drafting the Constitution and get a feel for what people thought about politics and states rights/federal laws and stuff like that. I wish I could talk to founding fathers about the challenges we have now and see what they thought would be good solutions. Or get a sense if they would approve of how things turned out.

 

[IntenseMagic]

I'd like to go back to the 60's just to visit, experience the culture of the time...but really visiting each of the decades would be cool. I'd like to just pop in to various times and places.

 

[yzerbear19]

As a history buff there are so many things I would want to see but I think if I could go back in time it would be to the Civil War (1860-1865). I've always been fascinated by that era of time.

Also would love to go back to find out what happened to my 2nd great Grandfather. It's the one brick wall I haven't been able to break down. Also would love to go back to when my 3rd great grandfather was murdered to see what actually did happen. I know what the papers at the time said and what my Great Grandma always said but I think the truth of it is actually somewhere in between.

It would be fun to go back and see/meet my ancestors and try to get photos of them to bring back to the present. I could invent a digital camera that resembled the old fashion ones so they wouldn't know! LOL

 

[MrsPeel]

ohhhh I am so SO excited ti read you all on this!!!! I didn't want to come back to this unless I had time (and my brain was engaged properly) so now here I am and I love how everyone looks at life through their own glasses and how I can get to know you a lot more!!!!!!!

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 don't think is morbid... I think you love people and you have a love drive in your life...which is pretty much the way I like living..... and you are right... I have a few people I would love to make some changes so they could have stayed with us a little longer......

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.

LOL Lorry... I was more thinking like a trip, a vacation, go meet some interesting people, get to go out a bit, but Like Midnight in Paris thing....(the movie , I think we mentioned it?) but yes, I understand your view...I also wouldn't like to live without the comfort of today...even though if I was just a bit better physically, and didn't have conditions that needed hospitalization every 3 weeks.... I would love to live in one of those villages like the one we lived when Sarita was a toddler in Brazil.... there is a lot of comfort, cable TV and stuff, but at the time we lived there, it was a small village with a very small community so life was delightful....

but yes, to the purpose of reality? I wouldn't change this era either!!!

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...

agreed... as I said to Lorry... my intention wasn;t like go back in time and STAY!!! LOL no way!!! it was more a bit of a fantasy on time travel....mind you, now they discovered the last of Einstein un- proved rippple theories.... LOL
anyway, yes, the reality is a harsher one than told in any book.....
my idea was more like a vacation thing....

 

[lorryfach]

If I can't take my laptop, it's no vacation to me.

 

[MrsPeel]

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?

ohh I would give ANYTHING to be able to go in the future and make it so that Sarita can have the best life ever.... and the idea of going back.... yes to not worrying too much.... but I have to say, even the stupidest and craziest things I did, I don't regret...because that was what led me to Andy, my marriage and Sarita.... so I would kinda pat my back and say, don't worry....all will be well... and maybe convince myself that I was not ugly...I spent all my years , until my early 40s, thinking I was ugly..... it turns out, when I look at the photos, I wasn't LOL

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!

oh Lor that is such a GREAT thing!!!!!!! love all the native American tribes...and I am including Central and South America too, I think I would love to go back to the Incas, Match Pichu or maybe the Aztecs, I ve been go a very very small Indian settlement in north east Brazil, no cars, pure nature and amazing people....but they do have a lot of the progress these days... I also couldn't live without!!!!!

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 have been pretty outspoken even for my own times LOL well I'm talking 70s and 8-s which were not easy to get buy in the places where I lived.... but yes, that was my idea, just a fantasy of going back, just taking a trip spend a few days, or weeks but not staying!!!! would love to meet authors... and I would love to go back to slap Henry the VIII in the face... LOL

I love the fashion and the pace of the 50's. But I'm not the kind of gal who fetches slippers, so IDK.

I wouldn't mind to visit the 1910s/20s...I'm thinking Downton Abbey-esque though!

yup, miost definitely me either!!!! LOL Love the Downton thing....would LOVE to spend a weekend in that time...with a lady's maid, and tons and tons of money...because the Victorian poor people has it so very bad!!!

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 used to be very adventurous...not so much these days abd yes, agreed, I wouldn't go too far unless I ca come back whenever I want!!!

 

[Tree City]

I would love to go back to slap Henry the VIII in the face... LOL

YES! Let's go back together and slap him (and lots of those ridiculous men)!

 

[QuiltyMom]

I'd love to be able to go back about 75 years to spend time with my grandparents. I knew my Grandmas, but not my Grandpas. And then I could see my parent's as teens!

 

[MrsPeel]

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.

I used to think that way, then I had my dad showing me that the lack of family values, lack of peace or unity within nations has ALWAYS existed..... it is just that these days is more world wide spread, we get to hear a lot we didn't before the technological advances.... but look back in time and you will see killings, wars, and lack of God & moral values all through time.... it was just all hush hush....
Having said that, I would love to go back, as I said , to the 40s and 50's as an adult, but just for a bit, have some fun and then get out of the way LOL also I don;t deny things have gotten a lot more difficult with world wode progress and moral values falling...but to think it was ok before..... i don't know....
watch Mad Men LOL
I have been to Egypt, when I was 5 month pregnant, we thought ok, now with a child... we wont be able to travel so we took a holiday with a Nile Cruise.....probably the best ever holiday of my entire life , would love to observe the olden days there!!!

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.

that is a great one, LOVE Jean Cartier!!!!! To gi back into Victorian ... we first need that thingy that lets you stop time so we can hit some banks and steal some money LOL

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.

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.

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


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.[/QUOTE]

oh I ll come back to answer on this one Shari, need to go eat, be back in a bit but I have some iedas about my own things in the past!!!

 

[MrsPeel]

ok, @Shari so sorry it took me so long to come back... I fell asleep and then yesterday we had a full on day with hispital and doctors, and therapists... and I wanted to be awake for the chat.....

what I wanted to say, is that, of course in here we are working with suppositions..... but I think all those mistakes, errors or even some of the stupid things we do...is what we need to go through to grow up, what makes us US.... in my very long life, I learnt to look at everything time after the event ... and I see that old saying that "God works through mysterious paths" ...and that if I had not gone through all those... I wouldn;t have met my husband or have Sarita.... You already have hald the way worked...you know you did some stuff you can correct and make it better.....

buit yes, in the theory, going back to tell ourselves of is a great possibility !!!!