Do any of you feel as though you beling to a different era entirely?

Perhaps you grew up as a teen in the '90s but would rather have been a teen in the '60s. Or vice versa.

If so, why?

- The music?

- The style?

- The general environment?

I was a teen in the '80s and the more I think about it, the more I feel as though I couldn't relate to what was going on at the time.

I think that I would've "belonged" better in the '50s. The music was more exciting, ("birth" of rock-&-roll after all!), men still held doors open for women (I'm told I shouldn't run around and open a car door for a lady when I date, 'cuz it's a sign of weakness???), and America was at the forefront of just about everything.

Of course, as a faily tan hispanic, I would've had to deal with more bigotry and legal bias, but anyway...that's how I feel.

What about you?

I was born in the early 70's... I had feedom that children of this age do not have. I grew up in a shitty neighborhood, but I learned much from the experience of growing up poor.

Weirdly enough, as broke as we were, we did things.... the beaches, the drive-ins, fishing for crayfish in Jamaica Pond... it was actually clean back then.

Picking fresh cherries from trees, concord grapes, pears, apples .... we even would grab peaches from a tree three blocks from my house.

I was a teen in the 80's and it was an exciting time to be a teenager. Adults back then didn't have such a strangle hold on kids and their where abouts... so I traveled to Worcester Centrum to see Duran Duran, all by my self at age 14. My mom was unaware... I just got on a Greyhound at South Station and took off.

Break dancing was fun... house parties (before the shoot outs)... rap concerts... name belts, I could carry my serrated hunting knife openly if I needed to to go to school. I kept myself safe and knew I wouldn't get kicked out of school for carrying a weapon. I was fine, and if need be, I could protect myself.

I liked the time I grew up in before things got really crazy in the 90's with the excessive drug traffic and abuse. Kids were trusted beack then and not treated like criminals... you could be a kid back then. Now things are harder for kids, and there is less relief. Less trust, fewer trees, and many programs are shut down that kids could have to be themselves... now there are more kids made to wander in the inner cities doing nothing more than ever.

I miss the days kids could just get out and break dance or rollerskate to their hearts content and weren't considered trespassers.

paintedlady said:

I was born in the early 70's... I had feedom that children of this age do not have. I grew up in a shitty neighborhood, but I learned much from the experience of growing up poor.

Weirdly enough, as broke as we were, we did things.... the beaches, the drive-ins, fishing for crayfish in Jamaica Pond... it was actually clean back then.

Picking fresh cherries from trees, concord grapes, pears, apples .... we even would grab peaches from a tree three blocks from my house.

I was a teen in the 80's and it was an exciting time to be a teenager. Adults back then didn't have such a strangle hold on kids and their where abouts... so I traveled to Worcester Centrum to see Duran Duran, all by my self at age 14. My mom was unaware... I just got on a Greyhound at South Station and took off.

Break dancing was fun... house parties (before the shoot outs)... rap concerts... name belts, I could carry my serrated hunting knife openly if I needed to to go to school. I kept myself safe and knew I wouldn't get kicked out of school for carrying a weapon. I was fine, and if need be, I could protect myself.

I liked the time I grew up in before things got really crazy in the 90's with the excessive drug traffic and abuse. Kids were trusted beack then and not treated like criminals... you could be a kid back then. Now things are harder for kids, and there is less relief. Less trust, fewer trees, and many programs are shut down that kids could have to be themselves... now there are more kids made to wander in the inner cities doing nothing more than ever.

I miss the days kids could just get out and break dance or rollerskate to their hearts content and weren't considered trespassers.

OK so then you feel good about the age in which you grew up?

That's cool.

PurpleJedi said:

OK so then you feel good about the age in which you grew up?

That's cool.

Video games and MTV? Yup!

I just like being long winded too...

paintedlady said:

I was born in the early 70's... I had feedom that children of this age do not have. I grew up in a shitty neighborhood, but I learned much from the experience of growing up poor.

Weirdly enough, as broke as we were, we did things.... the beaches, the drive-ins, fishing for crayfish in Jamaica Pond... it was actually clean back then.

Picking fresh cherries from trees, concord grapes, pears, apples .... we even would grab peaches from a tree three blocks from my house.

I was a teen in the 80's and it was an exciting time to be a teenager. Adults back then didn't have such a strangle hold on kids and their where abouts... so I traveled to Worcester Centrum to see Duran Duran, all by my self at age 14. My mom was unaware... I just got on a Greyhound at South Station and took off.

Break dancing was fun... house parties (before the shoot outs)... rap concerts... name belts, I could carry my serrated hunting knife openly if I needed to to go to school. I kept myself safe and knew I wouldn't get kicked out of school for carrying a weapon. I was fine, and if need be, I could protect myself.

I liked the time I grew up in before things got really crazy in the 90's with the excessive drug traffic and abuse. Kids were trusted beack then and not treated like criminals... you could be a kid back then. Now things are harder for kids, and there is less relief. Less trust, fewer trees, and many programs are shut down that kids could have to be themselves... now there are more kids made to wander in the inner cities doing nothing more than ever.

I miss the days kids could just get out and break dance or rollerskate to their hearts content and weren't considered trespassers.

I share the exact same sentiment. Growing up poor isn't bad when as a family you come up with creative and fun ideas to get by. As a kid, I remember those moments as a lot of fun. Sticking together and we would come up with great meals and having so much fun about it.

My mum trusted me to travel around. And I did. I also went to concerts and lived when the first house parties were organised. I love that I lived through that era of the birth of new electronic music and the atmosphere of love that came with it. A whole new music- and dancestyle was born and I was there from the beginning.

It was the first time girls were raised with the idea that they can be self sufficiant and don't need to marry a man if they don't want to.

I'm thankful for the times that I grew up in. Both for the worse and the better.

As a teen in the 90's I would love to jump into a time machine and be a teen again in the 70's for the style and the 80's for the music.

As a Gemini, I have to answer yes and no.

I was born at a time where I'm very much a child of the 70's and 80's and I dig that. I got to experience so many great things.

However

These days I find myself consistently drawn to the music and style of the 60's and very much feel that I'm a hippy and/or beatnik, so I would have loved being a young adult in the 60's.

lavender1983 said:

As a teen in the 90's I would love to jump into a time machine and be a teen again in the 70's for the style and the 80's for the music.

Funny...but I kind'a like '70's music a tad bit more than my own beloved '80s!

Nothinbutjoy said:

As a Gemini, I have to answer yes and no.

I was born at a time where I'm very much a child of the 70's and 80's and I dig that. I got to experience so many great things.

However

These days I find myself consistently drawn to the music and style of the 60's and very much feel that I'm a hippy and/or beatnik, so I would have loved being a young adult in the 60's.

Yes, I hate today's music and movies and fashion and everything

InternationalLover82 said:

Yes, I hate today's music and movies and fashion and everything

...OK...now pick the decade that you think you should've been a teenager in!

Or else I'll pick one for you.

PurpleJedi said:

lavender1983 said:

As a teen in the 90's I would love to jump into a time machine and be a teen again in the 70's for the style and the 80's for the music.

Funny...but I kind'a like '70's music a tad bit more than my own beloved '80s!

Oh I love the grooves of the 70's era for sure as well but I was thinking of an era where I loved the style the most...and that's the 70's....but i'm sure I would have had a blast being a teen in the free spirited 80's...no doubt about that.

PurpleJedi said:

InternationalLover82 said:

Yes, I hate today's music and movies and fashion and everything

...OK...now pick the decade that you think you should've been a teenager in!

Or else I'll pick one for you.

Good question, I think I fit right into my generation. I was born into the right one because I got to see a couple good decades.

I was born in 1967, which made me a teenager in the early and mid 80's... It was the PERFECT time for me to have been in and I wouldnt change it for anything!

tinaz said:

I was born in 1967, which made me a teenager in the early and mid 80's... It was the PERFECT time for me to have been in and I wouldnt change it for anything!

....i popped out in 68 and was 16 when purple rain was falling everywhere..

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blackbob said:

tinaz said:

I was born in 1967, which made me a teenager in the early and mid 80's... It was the PERFECT time for me to have been in and I wouldnt change it for anything!

....i popped out in 68 and was 16 when purple rain was falling everywhere..

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popped out sounds so funny

InternationalLover82 said:

PurpleJedi said:

...OK...now pick the decade that you think you should've been a teenager in!

Or else I'll pick one for you.

'80s!!! When else?

Well, u would totally rock the '60s "flower child" look.

lavender1983 said:

PurpleJedi said:

Funny...but I kind'a like '70's music a tad bit more than my own beloved '80s!

Oh I love the grooves of the 70's era for sure as well but I was thinking of an era where I loved the style the most...and that's the 70's....but i'm sure I would have had a blast being a teen in the free spirited 80's...no doubt about that.

The '80s were ANYTHING but "free spirited"!

It was all about making money (yuppies), or teenage angst, or wild drugs, or bastardizing the "free love" groove of the '60s into "free fucking".

I dunno...am I remembering it all wrong???

As a small child in the 60s I witnessed the Civil Rights movement, the hippies/flower children, soul music, (not r&b), and a serious and sustained anti-war movement. These events profoundly affected who I am even today.

As a teen in the 70s we had funk bands and I consider myself a true child of the funk. The rock bands of that era were also outstanding. It seemed a time of unprecedented opportunity for people from all walks of life and there was still a very real sense of community where peole connected with each other on more than a superficial level.

This was before the "me" generation of the 80s. I dunno, after that it just feels like people increasingly began embracing style over substance. Or maybe I'm just a relic now,

But I gotta say, for the music alone, I wouldn't have chosen any other time to be born because the music of the 60s and 70s is the best in human history IMO,

It's strange because sometimes I feel as if I did but the way my mama tells it, I was born in the right decade because my mama went through some real HARDSHIP when she had my brother. Then when I came it seems like I already had things that my brother didn't have when he was a baby (stuff he got from growing up around mama's friends). One minute I do feel (due to the music of earlier times) I came at the wrong time but in other circumstances I came at the right time.

No, I think I was born when I was meant to be, although it sucks that I wasn't really old enough to actually participate in and enjoy the 80s.

To be honest though that worked out for the best, because I would've partied too damn hard and never made it to 1990. No lie.

armpit said:

No, I think I was born when I was meant to be, although it sucks that I wasn't really old enough to actually participate in and enjoy the 80s.

To be honest though that worked out for the best, because I would've partied too damn hard and never made it to 1990. No lie.

YOU KNOW?!?

I probably should have been born in 1905. I would have been a flapper in the 20s (bathtub gin and all) and in my prime for the golden age of Hollywood in the 30s.

Timmy84 said:

It's strange because sometimes I feel as if I did but the way my mama tells it, I was born in the right decade because my mama went through some real HARDSHIP when she had my brother. Then when I came it seems like I already had things that my brother didn't have when he was a baby (stuff he got from growing up around mama's friends). One minute I do feel (due to the music of earlier times) I came at the wrong time but in other circumstances I came at the right time.

There are times when you do seem like an old soul and that's a good thing,

babynoz said:

Timmy84 said:

It's strange because sometimes I feel as if I did but the way my mama tells it, I was born in the right decade because my mama went through some real HARDSHIP when she had my brother. Then when I came it seems like I already had things that my brother didn't have when he was a baby (stuff he got from growing up around mama's friends). One minute I do feel (due to the music of earlier times) I came at the wrong time but in other circumstances I came at the right time.

There are times when you do seem like an old soul and that's a good thing,

Yeah it's probably I was born at the time I did. Oddly I probably wouldn't have appreciated the music of that time period if I was born in that time period. That's a strange thing for me to say. I mean I would've loved it yeah but probably not as dedicated as I am now. That's weird but fate is weird too.

Timmy84 said:

armpit said:

No, I think I was born when I was meant to be, although it sucks that I wasn't really old enough to actually participate in and enjoy the 80s.

To be honest though that worked out for the best, because I would've partied too damn hard and never made it to 1990. No lie.

YOU KNOW?!?

I know my own nature, and how much I love the eighties. I would've partied till I keeled over and croaked .

I was born in 1979 and was a kid in the 1980s. Most everything associated with that time period still makes me feel fuzzy and warm inside, so I have no problems in that regard.

I guess I could have been born a bit earlier so that I would have been able to buy myself a house and secured myself a job after education. Shit like that has just gotten out of hand during the last ten years. A lot of people here won't even live long enough to be able to pay back the loans they had to take in order to get themselves an apartment. It's ridiculous now.

I was born in the wrong decade, and the wrong country. (Australia sucks to be a Prince fan) I should have been born in the early 70's.

Genesia said:

I probably should have been born in 1905. I would have been a flapper in the 20s (bathtub gin and all) and in my prime for the golden age of Hollywood in the 30s.

And you would obviously never had to endure any hardship in october 1929, you would been born and die rich