Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire We’re you born in the wrong time period?

Seriously?
You aren't that old.


54, dad was close 40 when I was born, he plowed and logged with mules up into
the early 60s.


It's hard to imagine a JD A and B as being the biggest, fanciest, bestest thing ever
to work with.

We’re you born in the wrong time period?
Many times I have figured it at about 20 to 25 years.

If I were born in an earlier time, I would be dead by now. Probably from colon cancer. Cancer ran heavy in my mom's family. Modern medicine also kept my wife from dying as a baby, so I am grateful that she survived. She is the finest woman I know and I can't imagine being married to anyone else. I am 73 and have lived in what I consider to be the best time in this country's history. Not happy with where the country is today, but I have enjoyed more opportunities than any of my ancestors had.

Seafire: our society doesn’t get stronger, we get weaker.

That’s pretty much my observation, also. Many things have made our lives easier, more enjoyable and we live longer. As some have said, one can choose to live as they had to live generations ago, but some of us enjoy the comforts we have. A lot of people see those comforts as essentials and entitlements to be provided by government. I will leave it there.

I've often thought it would be interesting to live in another time knowing what we know today. Could have made some dough yo.

That points to the crux of these kind of threads.

You either go back knowing what you know now so you compare the reality of life then to life now - and use foreknowledge to make a fortune in any of several ways, or you are (were) just born into that time like everyone else and life would be as normal for you as it was for anyone back then.

You might marvel at reading about the Wright brothers in North Carolina, or a clipper ship setting a new speed record from New York to Liverpool and think, "will wonders never cease?"

You'd thank your lucky stars that you can take a train from Virginia to California in a mere 5 or 6 days where it would have taken your ancestors six months to make that journey, if they even survived it.

Half your brothers and sisters would have died before age 5, but "oh well, that's life". Then you'd pack your lunchbox and head off to your 12 hour a day job at the factory.


You'd get really excited over the idea of everyone having flying cars by 1950...

4 of us were musing about what it would have been like to have lived 100 years ago.
1. My wife said her life would have been ruined by Multiple Sclerosis at age 52. Her treatments have left her with no new attacks.
2. I said that I would have died in my 40s from pyelonephritis and pneumonia as a secondary problem from BPH causing severe urinary retention and kidney infections numerous times.

I suppose I hate the way our nation is right now and would have preferred the more conservative and moral nation of long ago, but I also like the ability to travel pretty much anywhere I want to go today. And, with all the health problems I've experienced that were not easily treatable years ago, it's great that I was born when I was.

My mom had polio so I’m happy in this time no complaints.

Hey Heym06, where were you raised in Eastern Oregon? I grew up on a ranch between Prineville and Post. Fifi was closer, but it's not there anymore (just consisted of a gas station, store, and Grange).

I think mostly rural , plus kind of in between 2 districts so at the tail end of both.

Phone in 73 , could have had it quicker but it was expensive.

Maybe because we were white trash 😊

If one had been born into life circumstances/environment/gene situation extant 50 years earlier, he/she very likely would not have experienced the same illnesses/health problems experienced in contemporary lives. Yes, life expectancy was shorter, but health challenges differed and type of life differed greatly.

I can recall my dad telling me of his dad making little wooden boxes in the shop to be lined with little blankets for 3 of his children that died at birth right there in the house. Alson said when his dad went somewhere with the model T that he had to carry a steel pail of water down a long driveway to fill the cars radiator and then opened the petcock to drain again after arriving back home.

We surely do have it much different today and I like this life today just fine except for the modern commies.

I agree.

Just Sulfa.

My Dad said, the cold weather clothes were warm, but awful heavy.

I was born in 1944 . I am glad to have lived while I did . Most of my family were farmers , loggers or miners . No one had an easy life compared to today`s standards ,but no one thought much about it as every body was in the same boat . Everybody went to Church on Sunday and nothing was open in town . My dad ,uncles and their friends all were in WWII . Some did not come home ,but no one bitched and cried about it . That was your duty to your country . When I graduated from High School . I enlisted . It was not only expected of me , but I admired my dad and uncles so much , I wanted them to be proud of me . When I was a kid the older folks were addressed as Sir or Mam or Mr. or Mrs. I think about that as young people now are very rude . They needs an old fashioned strapping to give them an attitude adjustment . I feel sorry for my Grand kids and great grand kids as things surely are getting fugged up now.

Same here. Worked to make some money while I was still at home but had plenty of time to hunt and fish. I enjoyed growing up in a rural area so much I've never left!

I thought the town kids had the fun. They could shoot baskets, and drink Coke at the drugstore,
All I could do, was shoot a 22 rifle, drive Jeep, and tractors, and ride horse.