An interesting thought about time periods

When one gets fed up with the tech world of today and the misery its contributing to, one often starts feeling life would be better before all those inventions.

But as much as we sometimes vie for an older time. One should realize, that there is no such thing as an easier time period.

All time periods including today, are rough in their own respective senses. Sure if we go back 100 years we won't have to deal with computers. But we would have to deal with several different problems.

Each time has its own ups and downs. And besides that most of us are not reared to survive other times.

I remember when my 11th grade english teacher asked us the question when we were going into reading the book Kindred, she asked "Do you think you could survive slavery?"And all of us said no.

She explained that even the strongest probably couldn't survive. And considering those actually living it could barely survive, how can any of us, who are conditioned in our own time period survive that kind of period?

This corralates with my theory (mentioned in my other blog Questions of a Biracial Girl), that the present always sucks until it becomes the past. Meaning, when in the moment we focus more on the bad. But once enough time has passed by and that present has become the past, we will often look at the past in a more positive light because well its over and it doesn't affect us nearly as much anymore.