If you could go back to the 70's would you?

[Trinity]

I'm a 6-s and 70s child.  Especially 70's I guess.

I'd go back, and try to redo it again.  But since that's not real possible, I guess the best of it could be tried to bring it into the now.

Listening to the top 100 of 1971.  Really brings me back to a happier time, if I had only known what I know now.

There's days I'd like to say F it and run, go back to how it was in NY, but with enough cash to make that ok.

But I'm curious, would you go back, or is there something from back in the day, whatever generation yours is, you'd either want to create or bring back again?

I think it was a kinder world back then.  Or more hopeful somehow.  Not like it is now, these times are really dark, but not so much if you don't let the media invade your home or mind.

Where were you back in the day?  I was drunk, smoking pot, listening to rock and roll and getting laid, had a blonde bombshell of a girl that I blew it with, had the country squire with the 350 in it, it was the best time of my life in theater after that, ended up sitting in times square with a plastic flower and a bottle of wine laughing at the people going to work, still drunk from the night before, sitting on the sidewalk.....

But oh, those summer nights.  Makes me want to get stoned again and kick it back, or just take a night off from all the shit going on around us, just for me, take a night off.

Not real possible, but maybe it is....

Hugs all.

What's your best memory from back in the day?

Rock and roll.

[Leena]

I was more of child of the 70s and 80s not sure I'd want to go back to being a small child. I'm not sure what my best memory from the 70s was, like maybe going to an amusement park.

I'm also not sure I'd want to go back to any time period, unless it was to do things differently. I really do wish I transitioned earlier for example, but I'm fairly happy with how things are in my present, and hopeful for how things will be in my future.

I don't think things were that much kinder then either. Certainly not for trans people. At least there's some acceptance now.

[Ativan Prescribed]

The idea that there are 'good' old days is just wishful thinking.
Sure there were times when things were simpler but at the time they were just as complicated as they are now.
Different old days is really to the point.
But I grew up immensely in the first half of the 70's, endured death and hatred that a normal person shouldn't have to endure.
But at the same time there was amazement at the human spirit to survive and the ability to not only endure but step past it all.
The second half of the 70's was basically going back to school, slamming down the courses to get me where I wanted to be, working the shit jobs but having fun at them.
But my best memories are from the fifties and sixties as well as the 70's, its just that the 70's was the beginning of being an adult when I had no idea what that even really meant.
If I was to go back in time I think the fifties and sixties would be where I would want to land, kid with grassy fields and forests to roam in, river valleys to explore.
You walk out the backdoor and let the screen door slam and you were on your own, hot summer nights and cold winter days, you knew how to deal with it and everywhere you went it was walking and running if you wanted to get there sooner.
Very little to worry about, life was an adventure you made up as you went along, it wasn't until later in life that you had to accept what was going on as the adventure, and my life has been one long adventure.
Never one to let a few bumps in the road slow me down, stop only to rest a bit and then back on the path again, the sense that something bigger is maybe around the next curve has always kept me going, good times and bad, its really all the same.
So the notion that one time was good or better than another is not realistic, even the bad times were an adventure just the same.

[francxs]

I have no desire to go back in time really. I kind of wish I had been more sexually adventurous in my early twenties, but then those were the early days of AIDS. I was probably wise to be circumspect.

I do often wonder what I would have been like if I were of my kids’ generation. I expect I’d have been right in there with the pronouns, genderqueer presentation, etc. It would be cool to be so out there when I was young.