After re-watching one of my favorite movies, Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris," I spent a lot of time thinking about why I am so in love with this movie. Of course the fact that some of my favorite people of all time are characters in the movie is probably why I'm so obsessed (Salvador Dali and F. Scott Fitzgerald to name a few), but also because I, much like Owen Wilson's character, Gil, believe I grew up in the wrong era.

I spend so much time thinking about this it drives me crazy. Whether it is Paris in the '20s or Haight-Ashbury in the '60s, knowing that such a time period existed and I didn't get to live in it leaves me with the deepest sadness, a sort of nostalgia for a time I haven't even experienced. Paul, the asshole of "Midnight in Paris," replies to Gil's fascination of the '20s by saying "Nostalgia is denial -- denial of the painful present... the name for this denial is golden age thinking -- the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one one's living in -- it's a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present." While I see where Paul is coming from, it is very easy to romanticize the past since, well, it's the past, I think there is more to this "golden age thinking" than that.

Having an "old soul," finding your interests to be much different than the people around you, and living in a time where people's priorities are different, I don't think that is denial of the present, just a disconnect from it. With all of this being said I comprised a list of signs that might help you realize that you too are living in the wrong era.

1. You're taste in music can be described as "retro."

I have more music from the '20s-'90s on my iPod (yes, I still use an iPod) than any current music. I mean, the lyrics alone are so superior. Have you ever compared past lyrics to current lyrics?

Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence":

Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again,

Jason Derulo's "Wiggle":

Hot damn it
Your booty like two planets
Go head, and go ham sandwich

2. You prefer vintage style to modern when it comes to clothes (and everything else).

Because crop tops, shirts with sayings, and mini skirts really aren't your style.

3. You aren't crazy about certain technology.

Yes technology is super convenient. I, much like majority of America, own an iPhone and a laptop and I love them both dearly. But there are certain things I could do without. For starters, email. I don't like being so easy to contact all the time. Also whatever happened to handwritten notes? I would take one of those over a text any day. Also hard copies of books over kindles and nooks.

4. You like older movies and/or period pieces.

Audrey Hepburn over Angelina Jolie

Alfred Hitchcock over M. Night Shyamalan

But a movie about Alfred Hitchcock, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Angelina Jolie playing Audrey Hepburn I might watch. (It would be horrible but I'd still watch.)

5. People call you an "old soul."

I get this a lot. Surprisingly, I get it from older people the most. Because internally I'm even older than them (I'm around 87 I believe).

6. You use Urban Dictionary a lot because you don't understand any lingo that your peers use.

What is a fleek and how do I kill it?

7. You've used and/or considered buying a typewriter.

Nothing is more satisfying than "tap tap tap," "ding," and "zzzzzip" that comes along with using a typewriter.

8. You get along more with older people than with people your own age.

I'd much rather have coffee with the Golden Girls than the cast of Gossip Girl.

9. You are always complaining about prices... always.

You might not have been alive when gas was 20 cents a gallon but you know there was a time when it was, so you won't let it go.

10. No one understands your pop culture references.

"Marsha, Marsha, Marsha."

"I'm sorry. What?"

11. Your celebrity crushes are either dead or old as fuck.

Damn it Bob Dylan. Why couldn't you have stayed 25 forever?!

12. You're frequently mad about the events you'll never get to experience or the people you'll never going to meet.

I'll never get over that I wasn't alive for Woodstock '69 or that I'll never be able to ask J.D. Salinger so many questions.

13. You usually have TV Land on.

I do love Lucy.