I was born in the mid-fifties just after food rationing ended in the UK. I was a teenager in the late sixties and early seventies with miniskirts, the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, and all the other great bands of the era. We were there when Black Sabbath revolutionised rock. Computers were just starting to be something that ordinary people might have access to with a bit of effort. Digital electronics and microprocessors were just about to become mainstream. I grew up in a time of great optimism even though there were hiccups like the Oil Crisis, the miners' strike, the Falklands war, the first Iraq War.

I don't think I would swap the second half of the twentieth century for any other period in history. And despite the challenges of the last twenty years a lot of people are doing better now than at any time in recorded history

I think I turned up at the right time for so many things. I arrived at about the same time as Sputnik. Saw a lot of the world before air travel meant you missed most of it, had the music of the 60s,70s and 80s and the best movies... Benefitted from modern medicine and the internet and established a home and family before those things priced me out. Now I dont think I will have to go through some of the tougher parts of what the next century will bring most people.. So I'll take it...😷

Hic Rhodus, hic salta.
What's gone is gone, and [u]today[/u] is your day. It's [u]this[/u] day which really matters. Today you can make a difference.

I agree. Im also 56. I've often thought being 5 to 10b years older would have been perfect for me. Having much older siblings i was always into music, but kinda just missed being fully on board with with glam, punk, new wave, new romantics coz i was too young.
But, it was a great time to grow up in the UK. X

I'm a little older than you but grew up in the 70s and finished my teens in early 80s.

I had great opportunity that I probably would not get now. I never went to university for example but still had a professional career. I'd not have had that later.

I was born in early 1968 and what's going on in the world (specifically in the USA) today. I think we were born with the last taste of freedom.

Today's kids will never have that level that we had

I was born in 1953 and stopped growing in 1978, at the age of 25.
[I have very good rose-coloured specs and a Dorian Gray mirror in the attic]

I loved growing up in the 80’s, great times. 😍

I doubt anyone would be the same person, without being born at the time they were born.

We all are a combination of both our DNA and our environment. So they would be a totally different person, no matter when they were born.

Racism was a serious problem before I was born. And only change afterwards.

I was born in 1959 BTW! So throughout both the 60's and 70's.

Were the same age and I think I should have been at the latest the 1920s but I that I want to be teenager in the late 1800s

Why do I say that. Because my vast knowledge is from the birth of photography and the birth automobile. I am a living encyclopedia of them things and many other early 1900 turn of the century items.

2 weeks overdue

I don't know as I have no idea what it is like to grow up in other times. Location is crucial too. I'm damn glad I wasn't growing up earlier at the same location.

I wish my son and I weren't living in this current BS. I got a taste of the 80's and enjoyed the 90's a lot. I definitely think I would of enjoyed the 60/70's a lot.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times....

Well it's the only time I know, and I'm grateful for each day I've had.

I obviously was born way to soon!All the women my age are still of the “Barbie” generation and long before Star Wars!

I would have loved it. I bet.

But.

Everything happens for a reason.

I don't know why I'm here, but, i trust that its for a reason.

I was born at a good time. I didn't face the issues kids face today when I was growing up.

I believe the gestation was complete

Yep, just not last night ! 🤨

@uncalled4 three days late

I feel yes

I don't meddle in Nature's tasks all that much. I took birth coz I had to be with my parents.

I think I should have been born during the 1920's or the 1880's.

Neither the right time nor the right place.

I am not sure anymore

I think I lived at the right time for me. Whenever I want to recapture the feeling of being a young adult in the late 70s I watch a movie that came out when I was in college, "Between The Lines".
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An easier time to be born be and and to live,being of a similar age,I agree