If you consider how much life has changed in the last 100 years it is unbelievable, and what will happen in the next Century?
Are these modern developments "progress"
Medical Research, Flights and Travel, and Technology
The above have all made the world seem a smaller place, but is the disposable plastic world we live in, where craftsmanship has been lost in favour of flat-pack and value diminished, is the world a better place? Is this throw away society something to be proud of?
Pandemics can easily spread from country to country, aided not by birds but our ease of travel. More medicines are therefore pumped into both humans and our animal food chain to combat disease, which in turn is creating super bugs.
Technology has produced more waste products and rubbish in our seas and streets. Take-away cheap ready-meals are less nutritious with the added E's, salt, sugar and chemical preservatives added to make life easier for us!
People are stressed with this frantic pace we have set ourselves, but with little physical activity being expounded. In some ways, with all these gadgets people have become lazy or lethargic so that new sport venues and leisure activities have to be introduced to burn the calories to prevent people becoming fat. So that they can rush from work to the gym!
In my grandmothers day Monday was wash-day, all day was devoted to washing sheets and clothes. The copper was fired up with hot coals in the scullery, the equivalent to to-days utility room. Buckets of "bluebag", coloured water to keep the voluminous sheets white, stood in a row to rinse the clothes after they were washed by hand. The huge mangle with rubber rollers squeezed the soap suds and water like a waterfall into a bucket.
On fine days the sheets billowed in the breeze, on wet days there was an airer let down from the kitchen ceiling where the wet clothes and sheets were piled on to dry. Despite the hard times my grandma was fit and healthy until her death in her nineties. Washing wasn't the only hard chore, scrubbing floors and sweeping happened daily and people of her era had spotless houses and took great pride in their possessions polishing furniture and silver cutlery until they gleamed. They were so busy they didn't need a gym!
Well we cannot halt change and many wouldn't want to, but now we escape the rat-race for a few weeks holiday a year so we can slow down and become at one with nature again. We spend the money we have spent long hours earning, on flights to far away places, to spend our precious weeks unwinding!
The current dream for many is to retire to a less populated area and be self-sufficient, growing vegetables and keeping chickens. It seems the desire to move backwards to life centuries ago is inbred in us.
If setting up your own business anywhere in the world, with just a laptop and an internet connection appeals to you, start NOW and learn some new skills. Begin a hobby business online and work at your own pace in readiness for an early retirement and time freedom. You don't want to be tied to your boss until you are 70 plus do you?
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