Would you like to live in a different time?

i would love to live in the time of the ancient daoist masters..they were wise man..and i really dig the costumes!!!

I almost never watch TV or movies, but if there is a period movie on, I'm drawn to it. I would love to live in the time when men were gentlemen and women were ladies. Ladies then were so feminine and dressed so beautifully. Dancing was elegant. Dignity was important. Tradition was paramount. Mind you, wearing those clothes, it would have to be in a cold climate, so of course, it would have to be in England, but I could accept that. The other stipulation would be that I would have to be in the upper class. I think the lower classes had a dreadfully hard time.

I have never thought about living in a different time, but as I have had a relatively happy life, I doubt very much that I would like to live in any other time, other than that which I have lived in. I wouldn't like to be a teenager in to-days society, as I think there are a lot of them who are very discontented and there is too much competition. I guess I am happy to be just plain old me.

Our ranch has been in the family for many many years. Whenever I sift through the old sepia colored photographs I marvel at the hard work my great grandparents and grand parents had to do to build it up. Of course the landscape is familiar in its outline. But other wise there is nothing other than the log cabin that was the homestead. Yet they even had to build that. The crop and calving records that they were so proud of make us kind of smile. We'd be broke at what they got per acre! I live in my grandparents house....new wiring/plumbing and a necessary addition with 5 boys growing up. The history that surrounds me every day awes me. To think that I am a part of that great heritage!!!! My great grandmother certainly was a brave woman. Wild animals, no neighbors for miles, giving birth all alone. So many stories in her diaries. I would love to go back in time and meet her! And my great grandfather as well. Maybe it would be more fun for them to see the ranch now!!

I would have loved to have lived and grown up in the 19th century American West. Much like Laura Ingall's did on Little House on the Prairie. Back when this country was nothing but wide open fields with space in every direction. Things seemed so much simplier in those days. I can picture me and my siblings walking to school with a bucket holding our lunch - everyone in the same classroom with one teacher who actually cared about her students. Eating dinner each night as a family - food that was grown and raised by my father's hands - and lovingly prepared by my mother's. Going to town on a wagon and buying candy from the general store. When I was little, I use to dream just this. :)

I would. I used to have this imagination living in Egypt as a merchant's wife. At the time only man can be a merchant and do trade with others. Someone told me that it sounds like past life, not imagination, but how would I know which is which anyway ?

Interesting question. I would probably choose to live during the 50's. I loved the glamour back then with people like Marilyn Monroe. Or during the times of Laura Ingallas Wilder which I believe was during the late 1800's. Time was so much simpler than.

Evacuee, This is something that I love to ponder when my mind is not off and rambling somewhere else. I picture myself as a pioneer woman. A sturdy woman who is no stranger to struggle, a woman who gardens, helps other women birth babies, makes herbal tinctures, tonics, rubs, ointments, salves, and such. I also picture myself in the same time period as another type of strong woman - the bar-room floozy. The woman who is no stranger to the taunts of the "decent" women, the woman who loves to dress up in her finery and tempt the men for their hard earned coins, the woman who dances in the dance hall with a smile on her face but underneath that smile, the knowing that she has bested the system of man. I like to picture myself in the 20s with the flappy dresses. When I picture myself there I am always a black woman with ruby red lips and my gentleman friend is wearing a suit with wide lapels and has a starched handkerchief sprouting out of the jacket pocket. Atop his head is perched a wide-brimmed hat and we are off to an evening of dancing at a show bar where we will not only dance but be entertained by singers, tappers, and great musicians. I also like to picture myself in fantasy places at times; but then, regarless of where I picture myself - just like Dorothy, I always come home ~Donna

Oh yes. I have always wanted to live in 19th century Russia, provided I was one of the aristocracy of course(!), with my town house in Moscow or St. Petersburg, and my "dacha" in the country. In the Summer I would retire to my country home, and sit looking at the sunflowers and the trees in the orchard, and in the Winter, I would glide through the snow in a troika with a handsome officer at my side:-)) Having a Mother from Belarus, I was always bought up with a strong pride in my heritage from that part of the world, and I have always had a fascination for the life and times. I love the feminine, 19th century costumes, and I've always loved to read Tolstoy, and see the plays of Chekhov. great topic. Thanks.

I would love to live in the 1800's where the wore the corseete dresses i know they were heavy but they are so beautiful, i love looking at pictures from that era and i would just imagine myself talking and acting like they, a time when kids respected their parents and elders, when women smoking was for rich people only, a time when life was simply more simple