If you had lived hundreds of years ago, what
kind of work do you think you would have done? What job would you have wanted to do?
Really? Is
it good to leave this question so open? Hundreds?
How many hundreds? I guess I will pick one of my favorite times
in history, the Civil War. Let’s play
with this a bit.
My Nixon family lived in Virginia before the war
started. June 20, 1863, the section they
called home became West Virginia. Quite a
few of the men in the family fought for the North. One fought for Virginia. I believe during that time I would have worked
on the family farm. I probably would
have sold the produce from the farm, sewed, cooked, and done laundry for those
who could pay or barter. I would have
been a mom.
So, what would I have wanted to do? Sure, I was a medic for the military, but I
didn’t like the job. I probably would
have wanted to be a teacher. Women
didn’t have many options in the 1860's. I
also would have been what I am now, a housewife and mother. I definitely wouldn’t have been a soldier. I hope I would have kept a journal to hand
down to my descendants for them to see what life was like back in those days.
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