What we call progress is actually exchanging one nuisance for another. At the risk of being mistaken for growing senile thoughts, i would say the HQ (Happiness Quotient) was quite high a few decades back and contentment was just a few baby-steps away on the greed-curve.
I tried a collage of those little things that was integral to our daily life in the 80s and 90s. Needless to say i really miss them. Maybe i hated them then (familiarity breeding contempt) inasmuch as i hate today's realities...
We did not have iPads, I-Pods or Thinkpads, MP3 and MP4, Nintendos, Quadbikes, Video games, SatelliteTVs, DVDs or Bluerays, Home Cinema, Chat-rooms, Internets or any of the modern gadgets. We called on friends to come out to play, never rang the doorbell but just went around the backdoor… We had freedom, success, disappointments and responsibilities.
Those were the days…
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