Is it weird to want to live in another era?

Maybe you did live in that era.
Maybe you are on life 7, 9, or 14. ;-)

Get a past life reading sometime, if for nothing else but the amusement factor.

You never know.

I have always been highly attracted to the Civil War era, Southern Antebellum life.

But…since you do live NOW, enjoy your interests from that time, but, you have to be able to live in the present era of your current reality. lol

Maybe you can open a collectibles shop from the 20’s & 30’s, or collect old radios, or some other such hobby as time goes on.

I don’t think it’s weird. There are lots of people who wish Star Trek was real and they could be part of the crew. It would be weird if you disconnected from reality and started to obsess about it to the point where you aren’t participating in your real life. However, being fascinated by a particular era in time, loving the music, clothing, history and the like seems perfectly fine to me. What do you love other than the radio programs?

Not even close to being weird lots of people do. A lot of people only like the black and white movies from the past, they like the Vinyl records instead of digital stuff, and on and on. And that is just entertainment related.

You should read Many Lives Many Masters. Psychologist who regresses people to past lives.

I think it pretty cool that you like that era. Have you ever met anyone who did live in the 30s and 40s? I bet they’d be very flattered meeting you and knowing how you feel about their generation. They don’t make ‘em like the old radio shows anymore. How did you get hooked up with them? I use to check them out at the library and listen to them all the time. (Before the age of Internet) I love them all too.

http://www.oldradioworld.com/

I’m obssesed with old TV shows (I Love Lucy is my fovorite) and the 50’s seems like the place to be. I believe that everyone at some point experiences hardship and just wants to escape. It’s not weird at all. It’s just that dumb thing called human nature.

I think it could be a neat hobby, or possibly a career in history. People do tend to romanticize the past though. Segregation and racism were just part of normal American culture back then, and women weren’t all that much better off.

As for past lives, you’d be better off spending that money on a good history book, or a trip to a museum instead.

I should have been born in 1863 and died in 1959, so I feel ya.

No, but you can’t. Just don’t get reality mixed up with your fantasies of that era. It was a very hard time with The Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, etc.

Some people are what I call “old souls”. Revel in your love of an era. There was much to celebrate.

No it’s not weird at all, many people wish that they could have lived in another era, especially the 60’s it seems… Hell, I wish I lived in 40th millenium.

Aw @Ghost_Writer_92 I’m glad I’m not the only one! I agree completely, I don’t fit in now at all, I would have loved that time.

@King_Pariah Hell, I wish I lived in 40th millenium

You wished you lived in the grim dark future where there is only war, where to be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions, living in the cruelest bloodiest regime imaginable?

@chocolatechip sounds like heaven to me! Peace is so… boring. Except when it’s through War.

The 70’s were pretty fun! ;-)

Well…if anyone has ever read my profile they know I wish I was a goose herd.

I have to settle for herding my geese in the hot tub. lol

I can’t think of anything better than being a goose herd, dressed in some flowing provincial attire and wandering along with my staff in, oooh say, 17th century France. haha

No but there are limitations to what is portrayed in media….what you think of the 30s may only be one side of the story.

Romanticizing past eras is the theme of Woody Allen’s new movie Midnight in Paris. Check it out.

with what @prioritymail said, would you be willing to live in the Great Depression?

Not at all. I’ve always wished I lived in the late 1950s and early 1960s, from 1958 to 1964, that period specifically.

You might enjoy watching the latest Woody Allen film, “Midnight in Paris”. It’s about this writer who gets to go back and forth between now and that period in the past that he loves. I really recommend it. : )

I humbly suggest you want to live in an era that is presented in those media you are enjoying, not the real era. The 30’s were no picnic.
Imagine if your sense of our current time was limited to current top pop media. The distortions from real daily experience are massive. For starters you’d think regular folks in New York City on working class wages have big lovely apartments with grand views. HaHaHaHa… etc !

MrShinyShoes, I lived in that era. For the most part, it was a slower time, a time you could really enjoy life. We did not have computers, but we still managed to drive cars, have dates, marriages, good food, less pollution, .23 cents a gallon gasoline, eat out and take your date to a movie for about $7.00 dollars. It was an innocent age and that would also be my choice.

I really hate to say this, but for some reason, I believe what the whole world is enjoying now, is about to come to an end. Its pretty obvious, if you just watch the signs.

Enjoy each day to the fullest.

@john65pennington I’m sure it was much better then. And in terms of how people behaved back then, more manners, respect, etc. A few people I know who lived back then told me people used to “dress well” when they went out, even to the supermarket! People took pride in how they looked. Sure there were few bad apples, but not like now.

Oh yes, I’m talking about life in America back then, not elsewhere. Lol.

When I saw this question, I quickly jumped to answer it. I’m 17 and I am the SAME exact way. I think people like us can be a rare breed. It’s interesting because I’ve grown up in a area where computers were not the norm, old 80s music dominated the radio stations, and being creative wasn’t frowned upon. I do wish I could find other people to relate to in that respect, but just realize that you’re your own person. No matter what decade you were born in… try and find the most out of that era. As much as I wish I were a hippie in the 60s (or even 80s), I can’t be. I can imagine all I want with no judgement, and sometimes that’s the best feeling.

@bkcunningham My dad started a radio station that played all the old radio shows, including the commercials. I love the comedies and even The Shadow or the police dramas at night. I like to stay up late listening to them. My grandparents lived in that era. I’m even getting a typewriter that was made in the late 1920’s to early 1930’s.

I would like to live in an idealized version of the present era.

If you are weird, then so am I. I’m obsessed with music and TV shows from the ‘70’s. Maybe you just relate more to the Zeitgeist of the era that you like. There’s nothing wrong with being an old soul.

Not at all. I believe that whatever era you are drawn to, you used to live in!
I think it’s kinda cool!

No! It’s perfectly normal. I’m a huge fan of the 80’s and 90’s, Be it music or movies, i’m all for them. I would love to live in those times, sometimes i actually wish that i did.

I don’t know how I missed this question. I did my homework to radio programs in the 1930’s. During the Great Depression a lot of people had lost everything and were in despair. In small cities, people kept food on their stoves to give the unfortunate hobos who came to their back doors. Patients paid my father, a doctor, with chickens or eggs because they had no money. It was not easy. Enjoy the recordings that still exist and pretend, if you like, that you’re living back then. Have a hot chocolate, a bowl of Jello, a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich, Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, angel food cake made from scratch. Brings back memories to me.

Nothing wrong with nostalgia, and it’s fun and useful to celebrate the roots of present culture.

But there’s a big difference between identifying with the most interesting cultural features of a time and living in it.

The 60’s and 70’s had some great music and movies, but it also had the ColdWar with constant threat of nuclear annihilation over our heads, and some of most awful architecture ever (nasty boxy stuff with no visually redeeming detail).