Discussion Does anyone else feel that they belong or are better suited to a bygone age?

[CW36]

With life becoming more and more complex, detached and difficult for many millions worldwide, does anyone else long to live in a simpler, more straightforward time? Perhaps then catching the bus wouldn't even come into the equation. The happiest people I've ever met where not wealthy. They led simple, happy lives, without unnecessary complication. People who didn't chase material goods and actually genuinely want to help each other.

If I could time travel, I'd go back hundreds of years to the Tudors. Where people lived shorter and sweeter (or sourer) lives. Where people had a sense of faith, pride and belonging. A time before antisocial media. A time before cars and computers. A time of discovery, honour, bravery and big personalities.

Humans love technology, but in the process, they're becoming more robotic and more forgettable. Yes the past had its problems, but I'd trade this life in an instant to feel part of something real and tangible. I've lived a good life for the most part, but I never felt I belonged here. I myself, unlike many here I suspect, do hope theirs more to death than a nothingness. I hope there's an afterlife, because I desire for a positive driver when it comes to catching the bus.

 

[doneforlife]

No. I understand where you are coming from. But I wouldn't blame technology for it. It is us as humans who use it the way we use it..that has lead to such a situation. Forget about Tudors , I wouldn't even want to go back to the era belonging to my parents.

 

[Ambivalent1]

I would've been a great hunter gatherer. PTSD was common and ocd would be less debilitating

 

[Cepi]

Yeah I feel like if I had a close knitted community I wouldn't have self isolated so much my life and wouldn't have become this way. Everyone was so dull and fake when I was outside and I wanted to be apart of something more and feel like I'm really contributing. Not sure what period would accurately deceit what I want but I just wanna be in a tribe and take care of my people no matter the risk. Cause feeling helpful and being kind is so much better than living a comfortable life like we do today.

I would've been a great hunter gatherer. PTSD was common and ocd would be less debilitating

I would've been a good ass hunter. I love running and being free to explore new places and my OCD makes me obsessive about the tiny details of a place so I can have a sense of security wherever I'm at.

 

[CW36]

No. I understand where you are coming from. But I wouldn't blame technology for it. It is us as humans who use it the way we use it..that has lead to such a situation. Forget about Tudors , I wouldn't even want to go back to the era belonging to my parents.

Well, before all these temptations were real, life was made a lot more straightforward by default. No doubt people of the past would've adopted all our modern vices, but the point is they couldn't, thus more likely to turn to more meaningful and productive pursuits and pastimes.

 

[Darkover]

i look to the future and the rise of artificial intelligence the next step in evolution i wouldn't mind being a super intelligent machine that can create anything they would want or need

 

[CW36]

Yeah I feel like if I had a close knitted community I wouldn't have self isolated so much my life and wouldn't have become this way. Everyone was so dull and fake when I was outside and I wanted to be apart of something more and feel like I'm really contributing. Not sure what period would accurately deceit what I want but I just wanna be in a tribe and take care of my people no matter the risk. Cause feeling helpful and being kind is so much better than living a comfortable life like we do today.

I would've been a good ass hunter. I love running and being free to explore new places and my OCD makes me obsessive about the tiny details of a place so I can have a sense of security wherever I'm at.

Yes, hunting, war, it's all brutal, but it brings people together like death does. Humans are sociable animals and we have an inherent need to 'belong'. For me, It's one of the main reasons as to why CTB is ever increasing in the Western World.

I would've been a great hunter gatherer. PTSD was common and ocd would be less debilitating

Yeah, talents appreciated back then have become so 'unwelcome' and underappreciated.

 

[Ambivalent1]

Yeah I feel like if I had a close knitted community I wouldn't have self isolated so much my life and wouldn't have become this way. Everyone was so dull and fake when I was outside and I wanted to be apart of something more and feel like I'm really contributing. Not sure what period would accurately deceit what I want but I just wanna be in a tribe and take care of my people no matter the risk. Cause feeling helpful and being kind is so much better than living a comfortable life like we do today.

I would've been a good ass hunter. I love running and being free to explore new places and my OCD makes me obsessive about the tiny details of a place so I can have a sense of security wherever I'm at.

Ocd means accurate spear throwing. We would have more food.

 

[ButterflyDream]

Living in the past means no modern medication to help me hold on to what little mental health I have left, so nah. I'd just be an unmedicated village menace.

 

[FindingHome]

I will forever be 12 years old. Even though I am considered an "adult" I have never identified as one. I will forever see myself and identify as a 12 year old girl. I don't identify as a woman. I am a girl.

 

[aquasaltstripes]

I will forever be 12 years old. Even though I am considered an "adult" I have never identified as one. I will forever see myself and identify as a 12 year old girl. I don't identify as a woman. I am a girl.

Totally get this! The thought of me being a man or a woman just grosses me out: I guess it implies a more boring or deeper kind of jadedness and the sort of culmination of internalized respective gender roles. I've always been a boy/girl/child at heart, who just wants to have fun and roll about in the sandboxes and grass again. I guess this is probably referred as "regression" in psychology or, hell, even Peter Pan Syndrome, but I'm too silly to care!

With life becoming more and more complex, detached and difficult for many millions worldwide, does anyone else long to live in a simpler, more straightforward time? Perhaps then catching the bus wouldn't even come into the equation. The happiest people I've ever met where not wealthy. They led simple, happy lives, without unnecessary complication. People who didn't chase material goods and actually genuinely want to help each other.

If I could time travel, I'd go back hundreds of years to the Tudors. Where people lived shorter and sweeter (or sourer) lives. Where people had a sense of faith, pride and belonging. A time before antisocial media. A time before cars and computers. A time of discovery, honour, bravery and big personalities.

Humans love technology, but in the process, they're becoming more robotic and more forgettable. Yes the past had its problems, but I'd trade this life in an instant to feel part of something real and tangible. I've lived a good life for the most part, but I never felt I belonged here. I myself, unlike many here I suspect, do hope theirs more to death than a nothingness. I hope there's an afterlife, because I desire for a positive driver when it comes to catching the bus.

As for the original post, I can definitely get what you're getting at. With the exception of all the heightened racism, sexism, slavery, horrendous diseases and ignorance about mental illnesses/disorders, etc., living out in the marshlands or mountains or something and farming and exploring without cars, light pollution, noise pollution, etc. — that's the fucking dream. And that's the thing about a lot of us millennials and Gen Z: Mansions, caviar, yachts, Bugattis — fuck all that. Let us move into a cabin in the woods, perhaps with some friends or a pet if we have them, and be left the hell alone.