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I grew up on a farm in a communist country. I still feel my life was much more interesting back then. We were poor but, paradoxically, we ate better than I eat

I grew up on a farm in a communist country. I still feel my life was much more interesting back then. We were poor but, paradoxically, we ate better than I eat now. The tasks had much more variety to them, there was a lot of interesting stuff happening every day and requiring your attention. There was new thing to be done/fixed all the time and I would never get bored. We would be doing everything for ourselves no matter how unskilled we were in the task, you had to figure it out while you were doing it. There was plenty of variety between seasons and there was plenty of free time to spend with the family. I like my current job and it pays very well but I feel my daytime consists of only work and entertainment. There is almost no variety to it and during 3-4 weeks of vacation I have annually I feel like I have no idea what to do with the time to truly recharge my batteries.

virgilp 8y ago
There is a joke popular in communist countries: > Two old men are talking. "Ah, life was so much better during Stalin's rule!". "Are you mad? We barely had anything to eat, and they were randomly killing people, we lived in constant fear!". "Yes, but we were young...." I feel this is the same - your nostalgia is saying more about you than about the times/the society. I also grew up in a communist country, and I don't feel there's much that we lost by getting rid of them - you could easily choose to live that very same lifestyle now, but (I speculate) you don't because you know deep inside that you and your family would hate it.
decebalus1 8y ago
This is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection. I also grew up in a communist country. I also remember good times. I don't miss it, except for the sense of community in the face of adversity. You can still have that now if you look past the consumer culture.

virgilp 8y ago

There is a joke popular in communist countries: > Two old men are talking. "Ah, life was so much better during Stalin's rule!". "Are you mad? We barely had anything to eat, and they were randomly killing people, we lived in constant fear!". "Yes, but we were young...." I feel this is the same - your nostalgia is saying more about you than about the times/the society. I also grew up in a communist country, and I don't feel there's much that we lost by getting rid of them - you could easily choose to live that very same lifestyle now, but (I speculate) you don't because you know deep inside that you and your family would hate it.

decebalus1 8y ago

This is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection. I also grew up in a communist country. I also remember good times. I don't miss it, except for the sense of community in the face of adversity. You can still have that now if you look past the consumer culture.