The world has changed in the last 10 years and a lot of new technologies have been invented or improved, but have you thought about what life was like when the things we have today weren't in existence? I'm talking about the time of our forefathers, maybe the 80s and down below, do you know how things were done during those years?
I was born in the 90s, so I don't know how life was before then but I'm fortunate enough to catch a glimpse of how life was in early 2000. One thing I do admire even up to today is how simple life was back in those days. Human interaction was very high and we didn't have much technology as we have today that keeps us from having one on one discussions with our neighbors (I'm talking about things like social media and others).
I was a very outdoor person during those years coz I didn't have a lot of things that will keep me indoors but these days, my phone and laptop usually keep me busy indoors all the time and I find it hard to stay away from them and spend time outdoors. I will admit that life was very fun back then, especially during the Christmas periods and you can instantly start feeling the Christmas spirit right from September but these days, it doesn't feel that way anymore.
Will I prefer the old days?
Even though I said I love how fun the old days were, I'm still going to pick this present modern world. Both options have advantages and disadvantages but after weighing both of them, I will choose to live in the modern world. A lot of technologies now exist today that weren't present in the past and that has made our lives a lot easier.
Think about how life was before the invention of telephones. My mom used to tell me of how she usually wrote letters if she wants to communicate with someone in a far place. The letters usually take days or even weeks to be delivered and she will have to wait for a couple more days before she can get the person's reply, but these days we can instantly send a message to someone in another part of the world and they will reply in mere seconds. Things have gotten faster and more convenient!
Should we then talk about transportation? In the past, people rely on the use of animals like camels, donkeys, and horses to travel to far distances, and some who couldn't afford those animals will have to trek a very far distance which will take days. But today, we have cars, buses, trains, airplanes, and all other modes of transportation that have made life a lot easier.
But one good thing about the past is that people were much healthier. The lifespan of an average adult during that era is far longer j than what we have today. Diseases like cancer weren't very common those days and that's mostly because our forefathers eat mostly fresh foods compared to the processed and fast foods we have today.
They were much stronger during that era because they do a lot of physical activities due to the lack of most of the technological innovations we have today. Those technologies we have today have no doubt made things easier for us, but it has also made us lazier because we now rely on those technologies a lot.
But despite all these disadvantages I have mentioned about the modern world, I still believe it's much better than the way things were in the past. We can easily avoid those negative aspects of the modern world if we maintain a healthy lifestyle. Eating healthy foods and staying fit are some of the ways we can maintain a healthy lifestyle, those are some of the things within our control but some other things will depend on the collective efforts of everyone (I'm talking about things like pollution and global warming).
Life has become more complicated albeit easier now when compared to the times of our forefathers. You might ask; how can something be complicated and easy at the same time? What I mean is that; technology has indeed made things easier but a lot of those technologies are sophisticated and aren't really simple to use. For example; washing machine. In the past, there aren't anything like washing machines, and everyone used their hands to do laundry but the washing machine we have today can't be used by just anybody without learning how it works first; it isn't so simple but yet it's the easier way of doing laundry.
A lot of problems have been introduced into the modern world due to the advancement I'm technology but that doesn't mean our forefathers didn't have problems of their own. If I were to choose, I will rather deal with today's problem which might require a sophisticated solution rather than deal with the problems our forefathers faced. Let's just say I love a good challenge that can be solved with modern technologies.
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