Do you ever feel like you were born in the wrong generation?

[Don'tknow123]

I've always felt like I was born in the wrong generation, does anyone have similar feelings?

 

[Promortalist_]

Personally no, every generation is the wrong generation for me.

 

[zi99]

I feel like it would be better if I was born at least at that century when medications for psychiatric disorders are better than now. Or at least if i dont have psyche disorder. Even if i was born with my brain couple centuries before, still I will stand myself and maybe even had worse problems than now

 

[Lmd]

No. This capitalism thing doesn't suit me and I'm fucking depressed, just like my generation.

 

[Largeletters]

Sometimes. I'm in my late teens, bordering on my twenties. Most people my age are obsessed with the internet and social media. They are followers and look for what trend to follow next, no individuality or beliefs that are their own. They have no life or personality outside of it. I hate that so much.

 

[Sans]

You know, I used to hate those "le wrong generation" people who talk on and on about how kids their age are too addicted to technology or how modern music is bad or whatnot. Nowadays, I still find them annoying, but I can sympathize with them. Sometimes I wish I was born not earlier, but later, in an age where medical technology was better and cures existed for all disabilities, both mental and physical, that way I wouldn't have to suffer and be held down.

 

[Celerity]

Personally no, every generation is the wrong generation for me.

This. I'm just not meant to work with other people outside my "tribe" and maybe not even them. I'm certainly an acquired taste. For most people, I imagine I'm like a shot of vodka espresso when they were expecting water.

 

[Alwaysbadtime]

1940's/early 50's seemed cool in NYC...I'd like to be part of the Beat Generation. Rent was cheap and there was a cool writing scene.

 

[demuic]

I should've been born in hunter gatherer times so I could die in early childhood of an infectious disease.

 

[LastLoveLetter]

I feel like I was born into the wrong world and wrong species - I do not belong here at all. My existence feels more like an unfortunate mistake and if I could choose to have never been born, I would do so without hesitation.

 

[Dymming Star6]

I feel that I should have been born in the late 60's so that I could have been big afro/high platform shoe wearing, sexy disco free chick, hard partying at Studio 54 in her early twenties maybe taken out by Son of Sam...Please excuse me for being so dark and unusually morbid at the moment...

 

[All Things Must Pass]

You know, I used to hate those "le wrong generation" people who talk on and on about how kids their age are too addicted to technology or how modern music is bad or whatnot. Nowadays, I still find them annoying, but I can sympathize with them. Sometimes I wish I was born not earlier, but later, in an age where medical technology was better and cures existed for all disabilities, both mental and physical, that way I wouldn't have to suffer and be held down.

This, the human body as it is now is way too fragile.

 

[FuneralCry]

For me, I feel like I never should have been born at all. I have no place and I do not belong in this world and it would probably be the same if I was born in any other generation. I think I am better suited for non existence.

 

[Sprite_Geist]

Not the wrong generation, no, because I think people as a whole are unkind - regardless of the age group. But I think that I was born in the "wrong" era - a few hundred years too early at least. Now I am never going to experience interstellar space travel, power armour or peak nanotechnology.

 

[it's_all_a_game]

Even though I dig the 80's U.K. New Wave scene, and desperately wish time travel was real so I could go back and live out the rest of my life there, I feel the same as @-Persephone- in that I want to live on a better planet than this one. A planet where there's no struggling to survive, and hardly anyone is a huge jerk. A planet with human connection instead of alienation.

 

[LakatosDiogenesz]

I wish I lived in a time where a pack of cigarettes was $1-2. Life wouldn't have been better but the tools that make it tolerable were easier to access.
Or maybe the early 1900s where you could buy Nembutal sleeping pills over the counter.

 

[yellothere]

You know, I used to hate those "le wrong generation" people who talk on and on about how kids their age are too addicted to technology or how modern music is bad or whatnot. Nowadays, I still find them annoying, but I can sympathize with them. Sometimes I wish I was born not earlier, but later, in an age where medical technology was better and cures existed for all disabilities, both mental and physical, that way I wouldn't have to suffer and be held down.

What's wrong with that? Why did you hate. I wish I had been born in a time without psychiatric medications or social security numbers. Just hop a train, sleep under a bridge and show you can work hard for a job. Just to be able to pick up and move and go anywhere. Would be nice. 1920s era. Not everyone likes being confined or staying in one place and having to worry about job and rental applications. As long as you understand the sexism, racism, and lack of medical technology in the past, why not prefer a different time period.

 

[Sans]

What's wrong with that? Why did you hate. I wish I had been born in a time without psychiatric medications or social security numbers. Just hop a train, sleep under a bridge and show you can work hard for a job. Just to be able to pick up and move and go anywhere. Would be nice. 1920s era. Not everyone likes being confined or staying in one place and having to worry about job and rental applications. As long as you understand the sexism, racism, and lack of medical technology in the past, why not prefer a different time period.

Because if you're disabled in the 1920s, chances are you're fucked.

 

[summers]

I wish I was born way in the future, when the world will be like cyberpunk or Deus ex. Augs and everyone and everything connected. A world where people have far surpassed our biological limits.

 

[callme]

Holy damn shitballs, all the time. All I listen to is old music, subscribe to old political divisions, like old fashion, old cars, old drugs and medicines, old architecture, some old people, old household items, old prices, old comedy, old sports, old many things.

First and foremost - self-reliance and common sense were kings.

Too bad present-day people find it so well to make a buck off the past by selling even commonplace memorabillia at insane prices. Like old mousetraps going for a grand. That's why I don't own any of them.

Heck, even old names are better. Harold over Dylan, Willbur over Ryder, Marcus over Logan. The 1985 Bears vs now - no contest. This Hamilton guy is no match to Ayrton Senna, George Carlin kicks Dave Chappelle's ass and the list goes on.

How'd you like a bunch of bananas, latest Playboy with Marilyn Monroe on the cover, a bus ticket to and from home and some meat all for two bucks? No worries if you meet LaMotta vs Robinson - they fight again next month. All the greats in music, sport and what not, from Elvis and Chuck Berry to Evil Knievel and Charlie Manson are alive.

Damn women are sexy! Ahead with Audrey Hepburn on the throne.

Do you know all the shows and cartoons? I grew up with them and it's all I've ever watched since I was small - check Faulty Towers, Allo Allo, Life with Luigi, Bonanza and Gunsmoke, and Get Smart!

Well, if I made this eulogy long and boring - Sorry about that, chief.

Too bad I was born half a world away from the USA, way later in the mid-90s to see any of it happen, sigh. Rest in piece, good old time.

 

[LONE WOLF.]

What's wrong with that? Why did you hate. I wish I had been born in a time without psychiatric medications or social security numbers. Just hop a train, sleep under a bridge and show you can work hard for a job. Just to be able to pick up and move and go anywhere. Would be nice. 1920s era. Not everyone likes being confined or staying in one place and having to worry about job and rental applications. As long as you understand the sexism, racism, and lack of medical technology in the past, why not prefer a different time period.

Yeah 1920's era, Sound's right, l'll join you if you don't mind.

 

[TheHatedOne]

Yes, I despise being a zoomer and in general being in a generation that faces economical crisis constantly, climate change and a very possible, no, probable collapse. Some weeks ago I read an article about how it's very possible that there will be a blackout in the whole Europe, there won't be electricity for 2 weeks. Collapse is coming.
How much I wish I grew up in the 80s or 90s and be alive when the rave parades were happening + early times of the internet.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

I used to feel too young for my age maybe because I was born near the end of the millennials because I was way into things like Pokémon for example way after it stopped being cool for people my age but now for some reason I feel way more like a boomer than a zoomer on many other topics and yet I also actually still identify with a ton of supposedly common millennial traits.

I guess I was just born in the wrong reality. Put me back in limbo or wherever.

 

[Kennish]

I was born in the wrong generation, the wrong time, the wrong body, to the wrong parents, in the wrong place. Everything just plain wrong. They call me Mr. Wrong

 

[odradek]

I used to feel I was born in the wrong generation when I was younger. I always wished I was born in an earlier era with less advanced technology, no internet, smartphones, etc.

Now that I'm older I've come to think it doesn't matter what era but what class you are born into that is most important. I don't know, I'd rather not have been born at all tbh.

 

[callme]

Yuh bud, I stopped watching basketball when Larry Bird retired. #doomerzoomer95

 

[OrcWitch]

I sometimes feel like I was meant to be born in gen Z but I ended up a millennial instead.

 

[JinZhin]

I had thoughts like that, but being born into ANY generation is being born into wrong generation, unless if you're born into privilege/ good circumstances in general but often not even then...
Being born sucks.

I was born in the wrong generation, the wrong time, the wrong body, to the wrong parents, in the wrong place. Everything just plain wrong. They call me Mr. Wrong

Do you like Depeche Mode?
'Wrong' really fits with this thread's sentiment
lmao

 

[TheHatedOne]

I had thoughts like that, but being born into ANY generation is being born into wrong generation, unless if you're born into privilege/ good circumstances in general but often not even then...
Being born sucks.

Do you like Depeche Mode?
'Wrong' really fits with this thread's sentiment
lmao

Man, I fucking love Depeche Mode. Was really addicted to the band back in 2017.

 

[Enigmatic Sailor]

I wish I was born in the 60's and did lots of psychedelics and coke then become a schizophrenic rockstar of the 80's.