Changing times

Published by: JD on 12th Feb 2011 | View all blogs by JD
Ahh, fine mornings when the sun is shining and the birds are tweeting is what everybody wishes for.
Reality on the otherhand?
Wet, dreary and wind which topples you with a single step out of the door.
Is it getting too much to hope for a nice summers day in Britain? Maybe it's because the world itself seems to be collapsing at a rapid rate from this 'global warming' issue.
How these greenhouse gases weren't noticed before they suddenly began to take affect is clearly humanities of effort to make change unless they absolutely have too.
We're a lazy bunch that is true.
We use cars instead of walking, we use trains instead of taking an extended journey to enjoy the landscape. Bikes, for most, cause too much of a sweat to make an appearence for say work or a meeting. We complain about getting dirt on our shoes or hicking a hill, we say we appreciate a photograph of a glorious mountain but we'd never actually go there.
I can't lie and say I'm different to this.
All I can say however, is that I'm really beginning to feel everything is being done for us in terms of our recent technology. Its like we are constantly being pampered like children given whatever we ask for or solving whatever we claim to be too much of a strain for us. They mask it by saying 'its for the good of man kind'. 
Can we really do anything for ourselves anymore?
We prefer to use email to chat to our friends who live nearby, such as Facebook rather than just taking the time to go over. We use our phones for entertainment instead of going out to participate in something active.
At least the young of the society do, the older generations are bogged down with work and stress of keeping a steady income as the pressure slowly takes over our lives sourly.
In a few words, this is my opinion on how society as a whole is deteriorating to a mundane lifestyle of routine and expectation. Before long, with technologys development we could find ourselves cut off from others without a need to leave the saftey of our homes, its power so greatly influencing.

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  • MinxieAD
    by MinxieAD 1 year ago
    Hi JD. We do seem to be getting 'downwardly immobile'... I know what you mean. We don't go shopping anymore, we go online, and microwave the meal of the person who isn't home at dinner time! It's sort of ruining our lives in a way. Some gadgets do save us time to do nicer things, but a lot are designed to add to our lazy, stay at home lives. I'm guilty of the same thing! I did go for a nice walk today though :]
  • Amarantha
    by Amarantha 1 year ago
    Weather was lovely in my neck of the woods today so I got out while the going was good. To do what? Shopping, which is not my favourite pastime but there wasn't time to organise a picnic and it will be raining again tomorrow.

    Trouble is JD we're being health-and-safetied into quivering jellies. Our species didn't rise to the top of the heap by being scared of its own shadows. And it's one thing to have the need for physical effort technologied out of us but when we no longer need to use our considerable brain-power we might as well dig a pit and jump into it for all the 'Life' we'll have.
  • mike
    by mike 1 year ago
    I am not car driver and, unfortunately we live in a car based society.
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