I feel like I don't belong in this time

"El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone)
06/29/2014 at 19:56 • Filed to: None

Some, people feel that they were born in the wrong country, others feel that they were born in the wrong body. But I feel that I've been born in the wrong time.

I have a pretty nice life, not perfect but pretty good, still I feel that things move too slow, that I don't really have time and patience for small things, I want more power and more speed and more opopenness from eveverything. I feel that my life could accelerate but this time limits it.

Take me back, future!!!

DISCUSSION (23)

GTCL > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
06/29/2014 at 20:00

I've always felt the opposite. I've always been really drawn to the past. Cars, music, the clothes, the style of the 40s-60s has always captivated me. I have always loved the ingenuity and the hard work that came from those times.

Kat Callahan > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
06/29/2014 at 20:06

Side eying you for what I think was a gender dysphoria reference. Please don't tell me that as terrible as the whole "trans-ethnic" co-opting of transgender terminology is, we now have to deal with "trans-temporal" conceptualisations. >_________>

Jedidiah > GTCL
06/29/2014 at 20:10

I love this era too. It's unfortunate that the optimism for nuclear and space technology from this era didn't last. Everything went to shit after the fuel crisis. Rather than focusing on progress; we focused on preservation. Whether it was preservation of our society through dominance (i.e. petty Cold War or foreign policy BS) or environmental preservation.

Things just seem so stagnant after that era.

ttyymmnn > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
06/29/2014 at 20:11

I have a pretty nice life, not perfect but pretty good

Then why are you complaining? There are many people who can't say that. Show me one person who has a perfect life.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things. - Lawrence D. Bell (Bell Aircraft)

Patience with small things is a learned skill, though some do seem to be born with it. But patience is also a choice . If you get pissed off in line at the bank, then choose to wait patiently rather than get upset.

Don't be in such a hurry. Before you turn around twice you'll be 50 and you'll wonder where all the time went.

GTCL > Jedidiah
06/29/2014 at 20:15

Exactly. I've been reading a biography on Werner Von Braun. The things that he had a hand in building, and the progress that was made in that era was just astounding. People just thought of something and built it. I've always greatly appreciated the early members of NASA and the space race.

Soloburrito > Kat Callahan
06/29/2014 at 20:23

It was a clear analogy, but of course the two aren't comparable. Not sure what you mean by transgender terminology besides a commonly used prefix.

Nicole > Kat Callahan
06/29/2014 at 20:23

My first thought as well. Not that "born in the wrong body" really is a good description of trans issues but it works as short hand for 99% of people who have heard it used over and over.

Jedidiah > GTCL
06/29/2014 at 20:26

Social progress was rapid too. Things just turned into massive corporate/militaristic stagnation after that.

Nowadays, people claim that there is a need for technology advancement, but I don't think we really want it as a whole. We just try to market the same old shit as something new to pocket some cash and new things only happen when it can be economically phased in. We live in an era of programmed/planned obsolescence.

The Compromiser > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
06/29/2014 at 20:27

was always told I belonged in the 50s. Yep. 1750s.

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > ttyymmnn
06/29/2014 at 20:30

I meant that I don't feel that way because I have a bad life, that's not the case, but rather because of the pace of life, and the pace of the world, and the mindset of the people.

Kat Callahan > Soloburrito
06/29/2014 at 20:31

See Irae Nicole's comment. It's a pretty common descriptor for the transgender narrative. It's not one which is really accurate, but it's something which has been repeated over and over. So whenever I see someone say, "I'm in the wrong X or I am the wrong X the way some people are in the wrong body" the comparison being made is to the transgender narrative, which is pretty trivialising.

I would say that the analogy isn't a good one in addition to the two not being comparable. I think it's fine to say that one feels out of step with the current flow of time without walking into the issues around how those who claim to be "trans-ethnic" coopt transgender terminology. And trust me, there's been a number of great essays on how this happens beyond the "commonly used prefix." That's just the surface.

ttyymmnn > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
06/29/2014 at 20:48

Well, I'm not sure that you'll be able to change the pace of it, so I guess you'll need to learn to be patient with it. And you certainly can't change other people.

Nicole > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
06/29/2014 at 20:52

I feel like I belong in whatever time where time travel is easy cause no matter when I would be, I would want to be further ahead so I can see what happens, but I would also like to learn more about what has happened.

For Sweden > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
06/29/2014 at 21:02

I was just born into the wrong family. I could do a better job than the current Andretti spawn.

Soloburrito > Kat Callahan
06/29/2014 at 21:04

I'll admit to being mostly ignorant of transgender issues beyond the common description, but I do understand your point now. Thanks for explaining.

Corpore Metal > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
06/30/2014 at 00:23

Surrounded by endless examples of human stupidity and news of human foolishness, I know I was born a billion years too soon.

Count Velcro > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
06/30/2014 at 03:28

I really want to have been alive in the 60's. or maybe that 40's-50's part and then I could have been middle-aged in the 60's.

MasterChef_117 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
06/30/2014 at 04:00

Same here but I always fancied myself to be a explorer of totally new lands/worlds... so i've basically been born a few hundred years too late or too early depending on how you feel about dysentry, cholera and malaria... :p

EDIT: of course, those unknown space viruses probably aren't nothing to sneeze at either. Pun intended.

FrankN.Stein > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
06/30/2014 at 06:24

Kinja'd!!!

Koala_MeatPie > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
07/01/2014 at 01:50

Strange you should bring it up. I've always felt as though I was born 800 years too early. No idea why 800 years, just, that. Probably still far enough that what I know would still be recognizable in some way, but far enough that there are things i could have never even conceived. Like the internet to a medieval farmer.

TempleOfNeutrality > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
07/01/2014 at 02:14

I'm transgender AND born at least decades too early. Do I win a prize? 'Cuz if I do, I so want that prize to be an all-expenses paid vacation to Google X to be uploaded into the budding hivemind/singularity.

neisseria > Nicole
07/31/2014 at 12:18

Fabulous answer!

Although, I've always wondered what's the best way to time travel as a woman (so I won't be messed with and be able to move around freely)? Wrap oneself up in the trappings of the rich?

neisseria > Nicole
07/31/2014 at 12:22

apparently Feedly took me back in time to this post. I don't know why I feel kind of embarrassed now :P