It's so easy to idealize the past. You can look at paintings of kings, noblewomen, and milkmaids in a pastoral paradise and think that they must be having a pretty good time. After all, they lived before all of the drudgery of modern life. They do not know what an iPad is. All they have to worry about is not catching the plague, which, granted, is a problem we haven't exactly grown out of hundreds of years later. But even though the past seems appealing, I promise it's probably way worse than your life right now. Unless you were the literal King of England, the troubles for a person in medieval times far outweigh the problems of modern man.
If you're someone who is convinced that the past was just a better time, just take a gander through these memes, and you'll know that that wasn't exactly the case. Now please enjoy!