With all the events happening in the world (1,200 fires in California, floods in the midwest, gas reaching ever-higher prices) it's tempting to wish you lived in another era. My roommate in college was this way. He was from a small town where he had friends, everyone went to the same church, and everyone essentially thought alike. When it got to college he encountered people from different cultures and belief systems, and it was jarring. Couple that with the fact he was struggling in his classes and was trying to get into ROTC for a scholarship, and he was stressed.
His stress lead him to repeatedly state he wished he lived during WWII. He loved the music from the era as well as everything else about it. But what he really liked was the fact that you had to focus on a war rather than your own problems - it was true escapism as you had to put your life on hold to go fight in Europe or Asia.
But the reality was, even with my roommate's hero George S. Patton, that the war eventually ended. Patton said he wanted to be killed with the last bullet of the war but lived after it was over and became very depressed (ultimately dying in a car accident).
So even if my roommate had lived back then, he still would have had to face himself and his problems. The good news is by senior year he had "found his place" and was much more confident and happy, and seldom talked about living in a different era.
The moral of the story? His "deep" desire to live in another time was merely another flow blockage. He was avoiding all the issues that needed to be dealt with. I was much in the same boat, although with me my flow began to emerge stronger and stronger as my college years progressed.
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