Writer's Block: Time traveler
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Disregarding the fact that I'd in all likelihood be dead if I was born anytime less recent than the past few decades-- dead shortly after birth (I spent my first week of life in an incubator) or due to my burst appendix-- I think I'd most like to see either the Enlightenment or Romantic eras. The growth of philosophical and social thought of the Enlightenment is appealing to me; I would have loved to have been present for the general aura of intellectualism. I also think the art, architecture, and fashion is beautiful. The Romantic age had amazing literature and music and was full of revolution-- which, while practically unpleasant, does lend a youthful energy to society, lol. I would have loved to have been a writer then, where my sometimes overwrought-and-too-dramatic-if-I'm-not-careful writing would have been all the rage :-P and I'd have had social concerns to write about. I'd be cool with either Europe or the US as far as location; colonial America was cool, and while the US had less of an explicit Romantic age, I love the Transcendentalist movement that was almost contemporaneous to it.
I wouldn't stay forever because even in the Enlightened age women had very little choice in their destinies, and I think I'd get sick of using chamber pots, lacking central heat, and not being able to bathe very often. And who's to say I'd get to visit as the educated upper-class? I'd rather not spend the rest of my historical life as a servant or the wife of a poor farmer.
That said, being interested in history there are tons of eras I'd love to make a brief stop in, in the same way I'd be willing to visit just about any country of the world so long as I didn't have to stay forever.
Disregarding the fact that I'd in all likelihood be dead if I was born anytime less recent than the past few decades-- dead shortly after birth (I spent my first week of life in an incubator) or due to my burst appendix-- I think I'd most like to see either the Enlightenment or Romantic eras. The growth of philosophical and social thought of the Enlightenment is appealing to me; I would have loved to have been present for the general aura of intellectualism. I also think the art, architecture, and fashion is beautiful. The Romantic age had amazing literature and music and was full of revolution-- which, while practically unpleasant, does lend a youthful energy to society, lol. I would have loved to have been a writer then, where my sometimes overwrought-and-too-dramatic-if-I'm-not-careful writing would have been all the rage :-P and I'd have had social concerns to write about. I'd be cool with either Europe or the US as far as location; colonial America was cool, and while the US had less of an explicit Romantic age, I love the Transcendentalist movement that was almost contemporaneous to it.
I wouldn't stay forever because even in the Enlightened age women had very little choice in their destinies, and I think I'd get sick of using chamber pots, lacking central heat, and not being able to bathe very often. And who's to say I'd get to visit as the educated upper-class? I'd rather not spend the rest of my historical life as a servant or the wife of a poor farmer.
That said, being interested in history there are tons of eras I'd love to make a brief stop in, in the same way I'd be willing to visit just about any country of the world so long as I didn't have to stay forever.
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Date: 2009-11-01 03:22 pm (UTC)Having said that, I would have picked the 80s. If I knew then what I knew now, I would have moved to Florida after finishing 6th grade. Father could have found another job. We would have started school easily instead of at trickier points. And bad things would NOT have happened.
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Date: 2009-11-02 07:34 pm (UTC)Though I probably wouldn't stay- experience tells me that the real version of anything is never as good as the idealized one. And even if it really was awesome, I think I'd eventually miss computers, the internet, and cellphones.