Is it normal that i feel as though i don't belong in the 21 centuary?

1400s was less chivalrous knights-in-shining-armor and more plague-stricken-starving-peasants and corrupt-nobles.

Renaissance was less Raphael-and-Michelangelo and more Machiavelli-and-Borgia.

1700s was less swashbuckling-yet-honor-bound-pirate and more Taking-and-raping-what-they-want and breaking-and-killing-what-they-don't.

1800s was less gunslinging-deliverer-of-justice and more gunslinging-robber-of-everyone-nearby.

1960s was less we-live-in-America-so-everything's-OK and more oh-god-nuclear-annihilation-we're-all-going-to-die.

Every historical time period has an overromanticized version. Eventually, it will include the 2000s.

Not everything in the 1700's was full of adventure... You're only looking at it through Hollywood's point of view. Living was really hard at that time. ( i.e. scarcity of food, disease, freezing temperatures, etc.)

"so much freedom, and adventure, and love."

That's because it's Hollywood & Disney. They candy-coated or simply ignored the reality of life of that time period.

Back in the 1700s you also had slavery, rampant illness, less rights, and harsher conditions, not to mention no refrigeration and medicine that was half science and half quacks.

If you're a female you have no rights unless granted to you by your male relatives or spouse. You can legally be beaten by said males. And it's not illegal for your husband to rape you.

You can also be arrested over religion - some states outlawed Catholicism for example. Or simply arrested because someone in power wanted it done.

If you wanted to just get up and run off for adventure ... good luck in that. Assuming you had the funds to do this of course. If you didn't have the funds, you might try signing on to a ship, but that would only be for the males. The females would not be allowed on board, except perhaps as a captain's wife, or ... perhaps as a morsel of flesh for the men to pass around.

Life on the ships... well that's even harsher. Really. Most people didn't chose that way of life for a reason.

Did I mention no refrigeration? Under way you had only dry goods, limited water (can't drink salt water unless you'd like to have a painful death), dried tack. You had to learn to tap your rolls to shake out the weevils (beatles). If you wanted fresh meat you had to be lucky enough to find a "miller" to kill (rats were called millers because they would get into the grain). And you can forget about fresh milk. And fruit. forget about that too, and say hello to scurvy.

And that's before getting into the issues with weather, navigation, and limited hygiene available.

all the things disney never mentions.

If you'd like more examples, I'd suggest reading the Outlander series by diana gabaldon, and the Jacky Faber series by L.A. Meyer.

Both deal with roughly that time period, give or take 50 years... and are somewhat realistic in how living conditions were. Gabaladon for the living conditions in general, and Meyer for the realities of shipboard life.

Live action role play sounds like a good idea for u, go play make believe with those other freaks!

Average life expectance was below 60, and that is ignoring the huge rate of infant mortality. Also the Pirates of the Carribean films portray the era in a very romantic light.

Well, nowadays you don't get hung for the stupidest and most minor crimes...well I'm from Scotland, we don't have capital punishment..and in the 1700's they're so unclean and probably stinking...thought I guess it was legal to smoke weed back then so..If you ever find a way LET ME KNOW!

Its normal... I think I'm like some re-incarnated old gentleman who hates technology... Don't get me wrong, I'll use it but I hate it, and I wanna go back to simpler times

Dude I know EXACTLY what your saying! Except I always fantasize about living in the 1940s. That whole era just fascinates me. And I also just really hate my generation. And I would literally do anything to be there instead of here!!

I know what your saying but it literally will never ever happen so stop wasting your time on it and join up with the Somalian pirates that are about these days.

imagine being in the sea dehydrated and feeling teh hunger from not eating for a week, the nice feeling of being taken by every foul smelling flee infested man on board the putrid smell the rats crawling
NOW THAT IS THE LIFE =D

God, grow up.