This video probably goes back too far for some of you, but parts of it brought back warm memories for me.
I’ve never wanted to go back in time, but I’m grateful for my past. What about you? Would you like go back if you could? If so, what year would you go to?
January 26, 2021
Lots of memories for me, too. I even remember gas stations before they became service stations.
Yes, I have fond memories of our local gas station. The fellow was always friendly. 🙂
the 56 chevy under the words ago, is what I bought when I was 18, daddy signed with me and I paid payments on 500.00 for that car. I do not want to go back in time, but i sure would like to return to the age of 38 and hold or even 40. Hold at that age with all that i know now from hindsight.
If you were younger now how would your life be different?
Yes, many of these scenes remind me of when I grew up. Back then, kids could play outside all day wthout being watched, you never heard of food poisoning or serial killers. No global warming. But of course there was also no computers, cell phones, or color T.V.
I love the computers, the internet, and blogging. No, too many toys now for me to want to give them up. 🙂
I can identify with everything in the video. I would not go back to childhood although I had a good one. If I could go back to my 20s and change a few things, I might.
The 20s are a time when we made a lot of life decisions.
The good old days. I don’t know if I would go back in time if I could but if I did I would want to do it with the knowledge and attitude I have today.
Yes, most people wouldn’t go back if they had to give up what they’ve learned.
For sure, lots of good memories there for me too. I have a photo of my dad as a young boy sitting on a horse just like that. I think I would go back the mid-50s when I was a very young child with no worries:)
I had some good times then, but life is so much better for me now.
Great video! Yes, I’d like to revisit my past, provided I could change a few decisions. Let’s go with 1960.
What was that year like for you? What were you doing?
1960 was a great year for me… I spent the first 7 months in Europe as part of a study abroad program. But I’m even happier now.
never back to my childhood or early teens
– but ’68 & ’69 yes! And I would change much, if it was rules that later came into play. I wouldn’t have come back to NZ but rather stayed in the UK with the eye to living/working in some interesting European country ?Spain or Portugal.
I didn’t actually come back to NZ until the mid 70s but by then I had met and married British citizen who migrated to Australia. We are no longer together, I’m single and free…
But if I was to think of the future, I’m quite keen to explore and live in Turkey – this based on a pair of people currently travelling in Turkey (mainly because of covid) and the people there seem extraordinarily kind…
It would be fun to know how your life would have been different if you had stayed in Europe. That’s neat that you know that couple traveling in Turkey…it sounds so exotic.
I’m content. and quite happy.
I hadn’t really realized all the huge loss that stalked my brother’s and my life.
it seemed like years of it. and before that the ever constant change of home and moving always. there was no stability in my childhood. thank heaven our parents were loving and good people.
so no. I don’t think I’d care to relive it. I still miss my husband. but I am fine.
and like you. I LOVE the internet and how it has brought the world to me!
I love everyone’s creativity. I am having a good time. 😀 thank you for asking.
LOL.
🙂 Yes!
I have actually pondered that question a few times. I definitely would not go back to my childhood…too much sadness and loneliness there. Wouldn’t go back to my high school days either unless I could just live at school! I did have a good time in college, but probably wouldn’t go back to that either. I would love to go back to 1980-85…my little girl was alive then. I miss her very much still. She died in 1986. I would also not mind going back a few years to when my (now teenage) grandchildren were younger. I had so much fun with them. I kept them a lot and we were always cooking, playing games, doing arts & crafts, going on scavenger hunts & golf cart rides, and so much more. I miss those days. I am hoping that once the pandemic is behind us (if it ever is) that hubby and I will begin to have some fun adventures and then when I’m “really” old I can look back and wish for younger days:)
I’m officially “very old” (81), and this is still the happiest time of my life. For a lot of people their 70s are the happiest…the 80s not so much because health problems get in the way. So far that hasn’t happened to me, so don’t assume the joy stops.
I’d never want to go back in time. Altho, happy, simpler, times…still my life is good. Why change it now?
Yes, I read an article almost 50 years ago about “nostalgia for the present.” Appreciate what we have right this minute.
I don’t know that I would like to go back, but I do wish I could bring a few things forward.
Well said. 🙂
There are aspects in every decade I could enjoy re-living but there aren’t any years I would want to go back to. I’m too focused on the future’s unknowns. When I think of how life has changed in my mother’s, then my generation, I am excited to know what lies ahead. That’s the hard part of dying, missing out on what will be — unless there’s some sort of consciousness allowing awareness afterward. Whaddya think?
The are a lot more big changes coming, and I’m guessing we won’t see most of them. I don’t know if that makes us lucky or not. 🙂
Oh, yeah, there are a lot of mistakes I’d like to correct. But, all in all, life has turned out to be okay.
The main thing is to enjoy ourselves now.