frostymama

Don't get me wrong. I know enough of the history of my family to know that the "Good ol' days" never really were very good. I appreciate modern social advances and I try not to view history through rose-colored glasses. I owe my life and the lives of my children to modern medicine.

But...

I've always had this weird feeling I was born at the wrong time. I have absolutely nothing in common with my peers. In fact I have more in common with my grandmother's childhood than anyone my age (25). My Wiccan friends in college used to tell me that I had an "old soul".

As long as I can remember my only real aspiration in life was to be a stay at home mom. I know that this is mostly due to the way I was raised, but I just couldn't shake it no matter how hard I tried. I tend to slip into traditional gender roles very easily if I am not careful. Hell, my hobbies are even old-fashioned. I would make a good fundy wife if it weren't for this pesky atheism, I fear.

I have an absolute obsession with historical clothing and genealogy. I am so weird that I would be thrilled to have a closet full of historical costumes and fully intend to decorate my house with old family photos and heirlooms.

I know that I am a freak already (no need to tell me that again). Does anyone else feel like they would have fit pretty happily into a different time period?

Zadok001

Let's just say that when you use the phrase "On the 'morrow" in regular conversation, people give you strange looks.

CheeseheadHeathen

I am definitely with you on the obsession with historical items and genealogy. My friends think I'm weird because my favorite way to spend a day off is at an archives office, peering at old microfilm.

I don't necessarily want to LIVE in the good ol' days, but I would kill to get to visit.

sakrilege

For me, the present is right. I am a computer programmer and I can't imagine a better occupation for myself. I have often wondered how I would survive in an earlier time and I don't think it would have been easy for me.

Maybe you should join the SCA.

NonHomogenized

Aside from my love of swords, I think I'm anachronistic the other way. I enjoy history, and I often enjoy the present, but I'd really like to live in the future. Somewhere far enough so that space travel is common. I don't really care if it's interstellar or interplanetary (I'd *prefer* interstellar, but either one is fine by me). Oh, how I'd like to live in that time.

frostymama

Been there... done that

villainess

If I don't survive to see the day when I become a sentient brain in a jar, instantly juiced in to all the world's knowledge and sensation, then I was born too soon.

Although when that time comes, I wonder where I will put my glasses?

the_villainess

FoE

I'm not sure if i was born 5 000 years too soon, or 10 000 too late.

NonHomogenized

I'm sure you'll be able to get a jar that you can have your glasses hung on

Ojuice5001

I absolutely do feel anachronistic. That's why I felt called to Postverta, the Roman goddess of the past, and thus it's why I am a Roman pagan rather than some other kind or none.

I'm a throwback to all kinds of periods: the Roman Empire, for the religion, the hippies, for the laziness and lax hygiene, the Victorian era, for my sexual repression, the eighties, for the tastes in music and clothes. I also eat in small snacks--high in fruit content--with sporadic feasts, like people did in preagricultural times, do not own a car, and any number of other things that I can't think of right now.