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37chief

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What 10 year period of time would you go back to if you had the chance. Don't get me wrong I like the family I have now, but everything else is in the toilet. Just look around. So I believe middle 50's to the mid 60,s would do it for me. A lot of first's in my life, girls, cars, First job, and a little spending money. Grew up on a small farm in S. Calif. Never really never needed much more. Mom and Dad, and older brother were still living. Any thoughts? Stan
 
(quoted from post at 14:31:55 09/30/12) What 10 year period of time would you go back to if you had the chance. Don't get me wrong I like the family I have now, but everything else is in the toilet. Just look around. So I believe middle 50's to the mid 60,s would do it for me. A lot of first's in my life, girls, cars, First job, and a little spending money. Grew up on a small farm in S. Calif. Never really never needed much more. Mom and Dad, and older brother were still living. Any thoughts? Stan
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Starting in dec 1973. Would still get married but if back then knowing what I know now......well that's a no brainer. I'm make a lot of different decisions.

Rick
 
I was thinking about that last night. Then I remembered The Butterfly Effect. Any one little thing you change in the past could have major consequences and changes in the present. Nothing you have now and the family you cherish probably would not be here unless you did EXACTLY the same things you did in your other past.
 
Two things I would have done different.

I would have gotten serious about continuing college earlier in life, and I would have learned to fly.

At one time when I was in the Corps, a flight instructor at the airport in New Bern, NC guaranteed a solo license for $75. Sounds unreal pricewise nowadays, but that's the way it was back then.

Several of my buddies took him up on it, but it seemed like I was always off on a tangent somewhere.
 
(quoted from post at 17:59:54 09/30/12) I was thinking about that last night. Then I remembered The Butterfly Effect. Any one little thing you change in the past could have major consequences and changes in the present. Nothing you have now and the family you cherish probably would not be here unless you did EXACTLY the same things you did in your other past.
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hat has both a god & bad side.........can we pick & choose? :lol:
 
Iv'e always thought that 1700's Indians had it right . What a time to explore and be free . Sure your life was rough with a very short life span but it meant something . With billions off us here now people tend to think sometimes there life means nothing .
 
I would go back to 1989 and keep My wife from getting that virus that damaged her heart and eventually took her life.
Ron
 
I guess as far as what ten year period I would want to impact I would say late 1960's to late 1970's. Make things easier financially for dad's side of the family which is to say I think additional money would have had a positive impact. I don't know that any problems on mom's side would have been fixed by money. Would have been nice to fix myself up with a healthy trust fund when I graduated high school in the early 1980's.
If changing things financially was not possible then I would change my decision regarding college. I could have done more things career-wise had I done different than an ag degree. I was too patient waiting for things to turn my way with the ag degree and it has not really paid off. Of course I limited myself by not being willing to move away from the farm to make greater use of the ag degree.
There is also the matter of one farm that the family should have got but was cheated out of. No shortage of things to fix/ change if you think about it enough.
 
Definately the 50s. The second world war had ended, no more rationing of gasoline, meat, sugar,and other items. Jobs were plentiful with people anxious to work for what they needed and wanted. There was little need for welfare as politicians had not yet learned they could buy votes with taxpayers money. Government had not yet taken over with all the regulating bodys we now have that wishes to control ever facet of citizens lives.
People observed Sundays by going to church of choice, they visited friends and neighbors instead of working seven days a week.

The 50s were definately the best years of my 70+ years of life. Joe
 
I don't know. 90s maybe. The folks were both alive and healthy,the kids were old enough to help out around here. A lot of the debt from the 80s was under control. The wife and I were starting to get away from time to time since the boys and Dad could handle things around here.
 
Carly Simon said it best

"so stay right here, 'cause these are the good old days".

Everything is better in retrospect. At the time it was stressful and difficult. Remember the race riots, fire in the streets, Viet Nam protests, Nixon resignation, Kent State 4. First oil embargo,

Such is life.
 
I would love to be back in my early 20s, but if I couldn't go back smarter than I was then it likely wouldn't improve anything. I'd still make the same kind of stupid mistakes. But oh, to know the things then that I know now......
 
I've lived, or maybe I should say struggled through those times, (not that I'm not still struggling,) but I have no desire to go back. Been there, done that. Want new challenges.
Would like to have my health back then though. Time has not been kind to my person. Working just as hard, feeling it more!
 
I wish I could go back to when my body didn't hurt so much.

I wish I could have gone into retirement the day I graduated college.

I wish had grandkids before having kids.

Can't wish your life away.

George
 
69 that's when I bought my Saab Sonett met my wife got back to work for the government and had loads of fun ain't it great o be single with a fancy sports car an money to spend. Darn those were good days even the Hippies were having fun and it fun to watch these crazy kids.
Walt
 
Wife and car still got both.

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Any decade but the present.With last years drought,wifes health issues and being unable to find a job(age 51)and my parkinsons limiting my farming and ranching(age 61),any time in the past is better than what is ahead.I know that sounds negative but I didnt realize the good times when we had them.But the good side is wife and I have more time with each other.She rode with me last summer as I watered cattle and fed hay. The upside is the good price for cattle.Gotta keep on plugging. :)
 
Not the 50's and 60's. Remember the cold war and the thought of being bombed by an atomic bomb. Remember "Duck and Cover"
 
I wish I could have relived my 11th and 12th grade in HS. Mid-80s (The girls I could have had instead of hanging out with my loser buddies)
I only need 2 years, not 10.
I actually broke up with 2 girls so I could spend more time with my "friends"
I was not too bright.
 
I'd go back to the late 60's/early '70's and buy a barn full of Chevelles, Camaro's, Nova's, Mustangs, Cudas, ect.... I owned 5 different cars that I've seen sell for over $75,000 on Barret Jackson. Sold all 5 for less than $1500 back in the day.
 
Would be kind of cool to go back to June 1966, right after I graduated high school- would have put off college for a couple of years, got a job, and bought every share of Berkshire Hathaway I could get my hands on. That's Warren Buffet's outfit- the shares were going for about $25 each then. He never split them, and those same shares are about $133,000 each now. Talk about an inflation hedge. . .

But assuming you couldn't take any knowledge back with you, I'd still like to go back to that period, just to be young again. It was sure a lot more fun than being old. All in all, though, I guess I wouldn't have played anything too differently, maybe just applied myself a little more. And not majored in Oceanography. And not quit engineering just because I flunked calculus. And, and, and. . .
 
I guess just about any era of my life was better than now because I always had more optimism about the future. Being old as I am (78) doesn't really bother me, and I Thank God for every new day I get, but the conditions in our country and the world worry me quite a lot. I never saw things as bad as they are now...and I remember World War II, the Korean Conflict, the Cold War, and Viet Nam and I never felt we were as close to defeat and losing our American Way of Life as we are today.
 
I don't want to go back anywhere! I've had good life so far. Sure I have the physical pains that go with 70 years, but I don't want to have to go thru the lessons I learned to get me here again. I happy right where I am, warts and all--and I'm looking forward to the next day.
 
You've made me realize how blessed I've been. I wouldn't go back to any era but I know the time will come when that will change. Thank you.
 
I had just driven a new car off the Buick dealer's lot in Carbondale headed east when I saw that funnel cloud and hoped it wasn't headed toward me. It wasn't, it was headed toward Marion.
 
1974-84. High school and two years of college, which I graduated from both, were in that time frame along with a couple years of single life! Can't go into details, we'll get "poofed"!
 
What would be the point?Each decade brings it's new challenges,good and bad.


Vito
 
No way would I want to go back in time, I couldn't take living on this godforsaken planet twice. My life has been a bowl of crap since the day I was born and it isn't getting any better.
 
We all look back at the good old days with fondness but we often forget the bad side of the periods we reminisce about. For the 50's the cold war and the fear it and communisim brought to us, we forget about the Korean war, the racism, some of the diease that hadn't been conquered and for us involved in Agriculture we often forget farmers didn't have it all that swell, often living without a lot of what we now take for granted. We can reminisce about the 60's but we forget Viet Nam and the turmoil that was occurrring in a lot of our cities from both the war and the struggle for civil rights. The 70's Watergate and Ole Tricky Dick, the Arab Oil Embargo, stagflation, The Iranians holding embassy staff of ours hostage, a rotten economy and the beginning of the implosion of US industrial might. And there is always the idea of what we know now, or the foreknowledge of the future that is not realistic. Of course if I choose a period I'd like to live over woulf be from 1985-94, As a young Lieutenant in Air Force I thought I had the world by the tail, it was during that time I meet my wife and had my kids.
 
My dear old grandma had a saying when I was a young kid in the 1960's..."if you wish in one hand and %^$# in the other, which would get full first?"
The only reason I would ever want to go back is to be able to see and talk to loved ones that are no longer here with us and let them know how much I loved them.
Life is pretty good now in my late 50's.
 
37Chief,
I would not go back in time regarding husband, family, friends and point of what I have learned in life (though I would not minding knowing what I know now... but physically feeling more like anytime before 40).

Life just gets better and better - and one day this life will end. Had lot of crud thrown in for good measure but I choose to focus on the good things. I've had some great trips around the sun!
SweetFeet
 
'50's- no, I was an infant in the late 50's

60's-no, I was just a little kid

70,s-no, who wants to do high school again-surely that was good to be done with

80's- no, I went from a broke college student to an almost-broke farmer

90's-would be my second choice, really got rolling and should have taken more chances

2000's- not really

I'd have to say RIGHT NOW. 100% continuous corn on a fairly large scale. Last year $6.50 corn and record yields. This year $7.50 corn and mostly missed the drought so I have nearly a full crop. Everything's easier when your pockets aren't empty
 
Same thing here! SJ Air Force Base in 1960, could have learned to fly for 100.00. Was having kids at the time and couldn"t afford it. Guess it was a blessing of sorts though, I"ve lost 4 friends to small airplane crashes! EGBinOR
 
would go back 16 years ago, would make oldest daughter 8yrs old and youngest 2 years, would like to relive them growing up again, was a lot of fun, but hey, expecting first grandchild within a month, guess I'll just play with her...
 
Hard to say, had worries then also, but forget most of them. Had my 50 year class reunion this year. The reason we think things were better back 40 years ago is we had lot less government intervention.
 
I'm having the best time of my life right now. Wouldn't want to go back and rarely think of the past except when an old friend passes away.
 
8 Dollar grain 175 Bushell-per acre I have to pinch myself when I deliver grain. I have made generational wealth in the last 3 years. We paid off 2 farms and are buying a 3rd on contract. I drive the biggest nastiest diesel truck made and i dont care what fuel costs anymore..Right now is the greatest FARMING period EVER. I did the $1.55 corn thing for 20 years to get here!
 
Waste the windfall profits on fancy new fuel-hog pickups and when it gets tough again you'll REALLY appreciate now!!!

I'm going to keep driving my 190,000 mile 1996 car and my 1995 pickup as I went through the '80's and this anomaly we are in now is my chance to be ready for when tough times come back.

To each his own but those who boast usually fall the furthest and land the hardest.
 
IF I could take the knowledge I have now with me.....I'd go back to about 16. I have done well for myself....but....I could have been much farther ahead....I have had a high priced tuition to the School of Hard Knocks....Cant complain though....life is not all that bad!
 
I heard somewhere that in Britain, a baby born just after Napoleon's end, and live to be 100 and die just before the start of the first world war, would have woke up every morning and have no day be worst than the day before, maybe no better, but no worse. I suppose the US had 10 or 20 year spans like that, but the more you know about history... or think back on your own life... yeah, not an easy question...
 
When you reach a certain point in your life ( usually 65 or so), the past seems much more glorious than the future. The platitude that "time heals all wounds" may not be exactly true for those of us whom have experienced tragedy in our lives, but time and faith does give us an opportunity to reflect and cope with the hand that fate has delt us. As for myself, I am quite satisfied to be living in the present ( age 70) as I am retired, though living on a fixed income, I have learned to live within my means and have low debt load to worry about. I am optomistic for the future of myself, my family and my country. I am thankful for Gods bounty and enjoy exploring nature"s bounty every day on my small farm. LIFE IS GOOD!
 
Hello Harold H: I've enjoyed reading many of your post over the years. Thanks. I think I will have to agree with you on the 1950s.. The 'great' Depression was over and "we won" the big WW-2 war. Many people were very Up-Beat at that time. Many new things to buy and people could afford to buy much. And then the Rock & Roll music started.. Great music ..and older adults hated it.. Life was good and people just seemed happy most of the time even if they were not buying stuff. The future looked good too. So, I will agree with you that the late 40s and all of the 1950s were very good years.. ( except for those in Korea.) ag.
 
(quoted from post at 20:42:34 09/30/12) I had just driven a new car off the Buick dealer's lot in Carbondale headed east when I saw that funnel cloud and hoped it wasn't headed toward me. It wasn't, it was headed toward Marion.
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Sounds as though you are a KANSAS kid.
 
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