Wish I Can Turn Back The Clock

I often wish, like you, that I was born at least a decade or two earlier. Things change throughout the years and I would have loved to have lived in the 70's, because this was the golden age for disco, and I've always loved that kind of music. In the 70's, Elvis Presley was also alive, and I would have really enjoyed going to one of his concerts. But we shouldn't live in the past, because we'd be very miserable since there is no way to turn back the clock (sometimes I wish I had a time-turner, like Hermione in Harry Potter!). We must look at the good side of things in our own time, and await the future with open arms. ;)

hello neil, I want to go back to the year 80's. I was born on 70's,and witness life more in the 80's and i can say that life before is much much easier than now. You are right,the wages now are higher,5 times fold than before,and all necessity prices were higher of 5 times fold as well. I missed the old province of my grandfather,which is now one of the most developed provinces in the North. The river dries,and fruit tress are now gone. The place is dressed differently as it was 20 years ago.

In term of the prices of goods and our daily food items had gone high, it is of course life in the 70's is the best. I remembered seeing my parents buying lots of food items with just a $10. For nowadays, we can't buy much things with $10. But, i don't think i have interest to go backward and stay in the 70's. Because i am satisfied and happy with my present life although things are getting expensive. It makes my life more meaningful since i have a supporting hubby and a lovely child by my side.

I can understand how you feel right now. Since aged 11 I have been writing in diaries (and still do) and am currently blogging them. I have noticed that, despite relationship problems with guys I was happier in the 80s especially due to the fact there were no demands on me. I lived with my parents, my outgoings were low but money gained from work DEFINITELY lasted longer. In my first major job from 1982 to mid 1988 or so my wages were miniscule BUT I didn't half have a good time. It's not as though I didn't give my Mum any board money..I did and it's something kids today should have to do..too many of them don't pay anything and I think it's wrong, to be honest. If I wanted to save up I did..took me a while and I sacrificed some nights out along the way..but the sense of achievement doing so was immense. You see, everyone else was in the same boat. Not many people had credit cards as they were harder to get in those days. During the 90s and beyond credit was too easy, which is why we're in deep do-do now. It's called living beyond our means. Fortunately, I'm not up to my eyes in debt but I know my husband struggles to get by. It's not easy just having one wage coming in and the soaring bills don't help either. The cost of living is way higher now than in the 70s and 80s. Food is becoming scarce, overfishing is killing our oceans..we're just not looking after the planet and haven't done for quite some time. I don't know what the solution is but whenever I get depressed I remember how it used to be. Such a shame I didn't realise it at the time!

How about late 70s and early 80s? I would go for that time. Wait. I could also opt for the late 80s and early 90s... I have many small phases or patches in life that I would want to relive. Not just about the economy but a part of my life that I am sure will never return back to me...

hello neildc, If I can turn back time I wanted to go back to those days were we have a family bonding when life is easy for us no hassle, no stress and all I do is to eat,play and study But somehow I enjoyed my life. Maybe I would like to live during 70's where food are doesn't cost too much happy mylotting hugs to Zay and ate Pat

50s gas was 25cents a gal or if gas wars going on got to 20 cents a gallol movies were 50cents att the time I am thinking there wasnt a war going on only thing is DOnt know if I owuld have married the x but then I would of had my 3 boy 60s was great to gas still wasnt to high married 2nd hubby had 2 kids and life was good even able to buy a brand new car in the 70s lolololol Most music form each decade I can stand

I wish I could turn it back to the 70's again. My life was alot easier and more enjoyable back then. My dad was still living also.

I think that most people after they have afew decades under their belt wishes that they could go back to a better time. I am among them. I liked the 60's and 70's. I think every decade has had something positive and good. But those were the best. Young and carefree. I had my daughter in 71 and then had to work and be more responsible.

Well so far our life when I was growing up was harder compared to what it is now. I recall having to use plastic bag as my bag, its the bag made of nylon but it seems i don't see any of those nowadays. There was a time that me and my sister only has bananas for our viand at school. My mother used to wash clothes for others just to supplement our families incomes, we don't have our own house etc... etc...well that was the 80's for me. I just wished that I should have pursued that engineering degree instead of pursuing another course or that bachelor of laws when I had the time...Life for me now is easier although I have the same sentiments as yours but I can say that my kids are better off compared to when I was growing up.

I sometimes wish for that. That life is simpler. You don't have to hurry to work and you don't work more than 8 hours a days and spend less time with my son. And you don't work too hard almost every day and get money just to spend for your basic needs. You have more time to enjoy life and the beautiful earth. But this is we are right now, we are in the new era, new generation, we are in the time where everything is almost instant, and you almost pay money for everything.

Hi! Yes, life is so hard now. Back then, life was also hard but it is easier to become rich. Like if you finished college and work hard, you'll be surely successful. Now, it seems like no matter how much you try, better life is still hiding. How I hoped my parents back then looked for a better life and studied and worked hard to become a little more comfortable in life. But what can we do? Time passes. And the time that has passed is gone forever. Let's just strive with our lives today and hope that we can survive. Happy day!

Well I don't know what decade it is, but I want to go back to the Spanish regime. Those we see in scenes like "Moments of Love". Where every photo was sepia and women were demure and gentle. I want to experience it for a day. But I don't want to stay in it though.

I understand what you mean. I know I wasn't born until the early 90s but I sort of wish I was born in the early 70s or early 80s for that matter. I also sort of wish that it was the late 80s or early 90s. Things were much cheaper than they are now. Here in Maryland, a lot of places were still about $400 or so in the late 90s. Now, it's hard to even find a $600 apartment here.

I think now is the peak of my life and wouldn't ask for anything more. In the 70s I was still under the sponsorship of my parents struggling hard to get 4+ in every semester just to please my parents. And that obligation of pleasing was like carrying a heavy luggage on my back which did not come easy for me. I got married in the 80s and it was where all hell broke loose. I never expected that marriage life is so challenging but it taught me to be strong and patient. I promised myself I won't surrender until the kids are independent on their own. I survived the domestic battlefields unscathed. Now that the children are on their own I can now breath better air as I don't have to worry about house mortgage, loans etc...I live in a mortgage free house, no more car loan for my old junk and monthly bills and monthly food expenses are paid for by my working boys. All I worry now is I have too much leisure time in hands which make life a little boring. But definitely I won't want to turn back the clock as the past were dented with many unpleasant memories that are not worth rekindling.

Hi Neildc, Well, I really loved the 70's. I turned 18 and moved out of my parent's home and the war had just ended. Life was exciting and good because now women had more opportunities and no longer were expected to just stay home and have babies. I was young and got a decent job and had no trouble paying my rent and bills. I didn't always have a lot of extra money for things but we got by just fine. The cost of things matched the average wages pretty well, I think. Even the early 80's were not so bad. By then I was a single mom and while I wasn't rich by any means, I don't recall feeling poor either. I had my own place, worked and the bills got paid and we didn't go hungry. I would not want to start a family right now and I really can't put my finger on why. Maybe it's just my age. I'm thinking that if I were young and just starting out, I wonder would it be all that different?

Ideally I'd like to go back to the 1950s or 1960s, but out of the two options you give, I'd probably go for the 1970s as far as society in general is concerned, but for my own personal life I'd go back to the 1980s as that was mostly a very good decade for me. I agree with everything you say about prices etc., plus I see a lot of other, what I view to be more negative changes which have taken place in such an insidious fashion that a lot of people haven't noticed it. The other day I was looking at some old Brit sitcoms from the early 1970s and I was appalled at how in comparison, our freedom of speech has been so badly curtailed over the decades since then, and that people have (since) seriously misunderstood the content of and psychology behind those programmes. I could rant on forever about this so will leave it at that for now lol.

HI NEIL, I really wouldn't want to turn the clock back if i could.I had to struggle in the past, raising 2 boys etc. I have it better now than i ever have had it other than my bad health.Nothing i can do about that. I don't know how u manage w/6 kids. I know it's got to be hard for u.

Hi neildc, Time is a recurrent theme in almost all sonnets of Shakespeare. In the sonnet no 65 (if I am not mistaken) he wishes to hide his Dear Friend W H from the cold hands of Time and Time's jewel would be hidden in the Time's chest. Last year was the worst year for me for I fell seriously ill several times and in the interim period I would remain low and sad. All the events of my past life (However)I am 43 now and would remain so obsessed that new things new faces would sort of scare me. Those gone by days are gone by and we would not get them in the same form as they were when you and I and they would live a carefree life. The Romantic poets in England like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats etc. often would resort to the medieval period. Nut Time would not wait for you , for me and for any one. So deeply I long for those days.

If only one can have a time machine that can set back the time and can also send us to the future, I would like to choose the 70's and see the future at 2030. The 70's period was a significant decade because we encounter the oil crises, martial law in the Philippines, establishment of the US EPA, the formal birth of environmental ethics, and the discovery made by Prof. Marion Molina of MIT and Prof. Robert Rowland of UC Irvine of the culprit (CFC) "chlorofluorocarbon" as the cause of the thinning of the ozone layer or commonly called the ozone hole. All these sequence of events has lead us to a more complex global phenomenon in which we are now experiencing the "climate Change". We are now talking of a low carbon economy and sustainability and all targets for carbon reduction are at 50% to as much as 80% by 2030. This I would like to see in using the time machine and set it up to 2030 so I can see if the targets set now are indeed correct, in short we can change our destiny just like the movie "Back to the Future". I wish GOD will let me see my children in 2030 living a life the same as in the 1970's.