100 Things - #12
Aug. 29th, 2012 04:00 pmAt the rate I'm doing these posts, it hardly seems like a meme, lol, but whatever.
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stormwreath: The guy with the time machine is going to send you back in time for one full year. You choose the date, but it must be before you were born. He'll immunise you and fix you up medically first so you don't die of any health complications (like bubonic plague), and give you a pill that will allow you to speak the local language when you arrive. You can also pack one bag before you leave.
Where and when do you ask him to send you?
So, before I was born means it has to be at least prior to 1984. This is a REALLY tough question for me to answer because I have two conflicting instincts. On the one hand, I kinda feel like the further back, the better? Because if you're going to have the experience, you might as well get the most out of it, and the further back you go, the more different it will be from my life right now and the less we know about it, so there'd be more to learn.
On the other hand, I'm not the type of person who romanticizes history. I never have that, "Oh, life was so much better then," feeling, because I'm always thinking of all the stuff you'd be giving up and thinking, is it really worth it? Every era has its pros and cons, but most of the pros are "I'd get to experience cool historical stuff" and most of the cons REALLY SUCK.
I mean, when I was younger, I wanted to be Laura Ingalls, so that'd be the American West, mid to late 1800s. But when I think about all the horrific shit they went through (fire/drought/tornado destroying their crops, wild animal attacks, plague of locusts), I kind of wonder why I ever wanted that life? We are talking a literal plague of locusts here. Fuck that shit.
So, I don't know. I guess I could just go a few decades back. It'd be fun to see the Beatles perform live or something, and at least they had indoor plumbing in the 60s. I'm not sure I could manage for a year without indoor plumbing. I mean, I don't know if "fix you up medically" includes "curing you of chronic illnesses you already have," but the Crohn's experience has, if nothing else, certainly proven the value of such modern inventions.
But then I come back to "but anything post-WWII is such a safe choice" and feeling like it ought to be a more dramatically different era. IDK, maybe if I pack my one bag full of toilet paper? Then I couldn't bring anything else, but it might be worth it...
Where and when would you go?
Today's question was from
stormwreath: The guy with the time machine is going to send you back in time for one full year. You choose the date, but it must be before you were born. He'll immunise you and fix you up medically first so you don't die of any health complications (like bubonic plague), and give you a pill that will allow you to speak the local language when you arrive. You can also pack one bag before you leave.Where and when do you ask him to send you?
So, before I was born means it has to be at least prior to 1984. This is a REALLY tough question for me to answer because I have two conflicting instincts. On the one hand, I kinda feel like the further back, the better? Because if you're going to have the experience, you might as well get the most out of it, and the further back you go, the more different it will be from my life right now and the less we know about it, so there'd be more to learn.
On the other hand, I'm not the type of person who romanticizes history. I never have that, "Oh, life was so much better then," feeling, because I'm always thinking of all the stuff you'd be giving up and thinking, is it really worth it? Every era has its pros and cons, but most of the pros are "I'd get to experience cool historical stuff" and most of the cons REALLY SUCK.
I mean, when I was younger, I wanted to be Laura Ingalls, so that'd be the American West, mid to late 1800s. But when I think about all the horrific shit they went through (fire/drought/tornado destroying their crops, wild animal attacks, plague of locusts), I kind of wonder why I ever wanted that life? We are talking a literal plague of locusts here. Fuck that shit.
So, I don't know. I guess I could just go a few decades back. It'd be fun to see the Beatles perform live or something, and at least they had indoor plumbing in the 60s. I'm not sure I could manage for a year without indoor plumbing. I mean, I don't know if "fix you up medically" includes "curing you of chronic illnesses you already have," but the Crohn's experience has, if nothing else, certainly proven the value of such modern inventions.
But then I come back to "but anything post-WWII is such a safe choice" and feeling like it ought to be a more dramatically different era. IDK, maybe if I pack my one bag full of toilet paper? Then I couldn't bring anything else, but it might be worth it...
Where and when would you go?
