On the face of things, modern life looks as though it should be a lot more enjoyable than life in times past.

We can communicate with someone on the other side of the planet at the touch of a button. Technology is constantly making everything easier and more convenient. Year on year, so many aspects of our lives become more and more effortless.

We're healthier than we've ever been. We live longer. We have very little risk of death or injury in our day to day lives. Illnesses that would have been life threatening not so long ago, are now easily cured.

In my last blog post, I mentioned a family who lived in a derelict church in the late 1800s to the early 1900s. They were poor people, living largely off the land. They made their own clothes. What they ate was what the father had grown, hunted or gathered himself. They had no electricity, no mains water, and the majority of their possessions were home made.

It wasn't so long ago, and it wasn't so far away from where I am now, but it was a very different world for them.

What would they think if I could bring them here, to see how people live a century later?

They'd probably find it strange to see how isolated people have become, and how the importance of family has deteriorated. They'd be astonished to see close relatives communicating through handheld devices more often than face to face. They'd no doubt be impressed at the advances that have become part of our everyday lives, but I suspect they'd also find it sad at the skills we've lost that were once commonplace, before everything became so convenient.

They'd note that we strive for very little, make almost nothing ourselves, and probably wonder how we can appreciate certain things when they have become so easily attainable that we've lost all concept of making any effort for them.

When I grab some bacon out of the fridge and stick it in the frying pan, do I appreciate it as much as they appreciated their equivalent? Of course I don't, because like everyone else today, I'm so used to convenience, I take things like that for granted. There's no effort involved, no striving, and the 'reward factor' is not there.

I believe that a family like them were happier than the majority of people today. Their days were much harder, more folk died early, but all the little things in life were so much more rewarding. There might have been more strife, but I'm convinced that was outweighed by the fact that there was more happiness too.

We've made our lives longer, with less risks, and everything available at our fingertips, but we've spoiled ourselves. We've taken the magic out of everything. Nothing requires striving for. Nothing is special. Nothing is rewarding.

I know people with lots of money, big houses, flashy cars, high tech stuff all around their homes... but who are not happy, and it drives them nuts that they are not happy. They can't understand why they're not happy, even with all their money and what it buys.

I'm being 100% serious when I say that that poor family who lived in that derelict church were probably 'richer' than the majority of wealthy folks who live in the area nowadays.

Too anxious to sleep. Too tired to deal with the anxiety.

im bored and i miss the housemate i like. she will visit when she can she is very bussy
some of the people in here are really nuts i gess thats why they call it the nut house

Money and connections
Are
Necessary at times.
In the end though, it's important that we
Find what is
Everlasting.
So many people
Try so hard to
Impress others by buying things that they don't want with the money they do not have,
Never realizing the vast
Galaxy above their heads.

Everything you do should have an intention.
Validation comes from within.
Everything you think is not who you are.
Remember that we are mortal.
You are loved and protected.
Tomorrow is another day.
Happiness is subjective.
Illusion will always be unveiled.
Nothing is permanent.
Go toward the light.

Inhale nothing but love.

We are all together.
Always and forever.
No matter what.
Time is the only commodity in life that cannot be bought, sold, borrowed, given out, or inherited.

If out in space a neutrino changes from medium to medium and only travels along a medium then where there is little medium neutrinos are non existent. Not only this but as neutrinos transmutuate across mediums they die out. Neutrinos are like fart bubbles that can reach the end of the light ray faster than the light ray is traveling which is why the fart ends up at the front of a gamma ray burst.