Shouldn't we be grateful?

Question

A very vulgar stage crew person wears a T shirt with the words 'Sh it Happens- Deal with it'. As a matter of fact, I agree with the sentiment and am personally fed up with people moaning about new inventions and going on about the good old days. Shouldn't we celebrate being alive in the 21st century and embrace its cutting edge technology with thanks?

Answer 1

I am grateful every minute of every day.

Answer 2

There is apoint to remembering the good old days. I wish I had things the way they were when my older boys were three and four. It was alot easier to hand down discipline to your children without worrying that hte state would step in. Now we have to be careful on how we discipline so as to not get the authorities called on us. I believe in good solid discipline not abuse. I have never beat my children eith 2x4s or ropes or whips. Buit I have applied the stick of knowledge to the seat of learning and I am glad I did. As far as new technologies is it making us closer as a people is it making society a better place to be on the whole instead of for a slelct few. If so then it is good. It does not really matter if we like it or not it is going to happen anyway, but that does not mean that we all have to like it and embrace it. If some prefer the good old days then so be it. Who are they hurting if they prefer things more simple and less chaotic. There are some of the things that are good like mediacal breakthroughs, but what good are thye if not everybody can access them? Just my opinion.

Answer 3

The mind has a funny way of making our good ol' days seem a lot better than they actually were.My own are better with the nostalgia factor.I spent 3 months in B.C. and tell people about what the good part of the trip was:met new people,scenery,etc.
but leave out that I spent 1 night in a box in the rain,or that I stayed in the worst roach infested hotel rooms for another 2 weeks.Time fades the negative events of the past.

Yes people should be grateful,and make a list,and do something in thanks,and plant a tree!

Answer 4

Oh yes I think so . the Good old days wer hot and slow. I got to much to do to go churn some damn butter. or milk a cow or what ever. I also dont have time to wright a letter go get a stamp and envolope and put it in the mail once I find the address!!!! That is a very long time consuming prosses. People like E mails just as much, And I wouldnt have time to give NE one a call exept for my cell. I can multiy task!!

Answer 5

I agree .I don't think the good old days were all that good.Unmarried mothers were put in asylums and had their babies taken away from them,that's just one thing.Yes technology now is amazing and I always am in awe of it.What a great time to be alive and I feel sorry that our ancestors have missed out on so much.What are we going to miss out on.The mind boggles.

Answer 6

i got the same T Shirt, present from my ex wife when she found out she kept the house, car, everything i had worked and paid for so i don't see anything to celebrate about the 21st century because i'm now skint and my second wife's working to help with mortgage and bills as i can barely keep up with the ex taste for luxury. in the old days she'd have went home to her ma's!

Answer 7

Oh absolutely, we should be grateful for dirty hospitals, MRSA, road hogging 4 x 4's, stealth taxes, inflation, the rise in interest rates, unemployment, terrorism, immigration, world poverty, G8 summits, rock stars becomming Icons of the modern age, low wages, longer working hours, record levels of debt and bankruptcy, a society without direction and a standard of morals, monster teenagers who think they rule everything, epidemic levels of drug use and misuse, a floundering NHS system, a philandering deputy prime minister attached to a submissive prime minister, hatred, violence, football players paid immoral sums of money to kick a ball about, a national football team who are useless, a government incapable of leading its people, paedophiles receiving minimum jail sentences, mental patients released early to kill on the strees, record crime levels, knife amnestys, honour killings by immigrant communities, the underfunding of our public services, the increasing divide between the rich and the poor, reality television elevating morons to the status of stars, slave labour of poorer nations so that we can have cheaper food, slave labour of poorer nations so that we can have expensive trainers, the loss of our national identity, oh, and women driving 4 x 4's!
Yes, it appears we have a lot to be grateful for..........

Answer 8

i also agree with the sentiment but I like to say "life happens" because thats what it is. You never hear someone complaining about good things happening and that is life - the good and the bad. And, the bad makes us appreciate the good times.

Answer 9

Yes, I feel very thankful and lucky to be living in this time and place in history. I 'could' have lived during WWII in Russian or Germany, and that would have been hell. I do believe that we have problems that we need to deal with, but they're usually due to bad attitudes on people's part.

Answer 10

I agree with you. Be grateful that you are alive. Stuff does happen new things get invented oh well. Just be grateful:)

Answer 11

i cant help thinkin life is a load of sh it, im grateful i exist in this centuary but id rather be bak livin in the old days, it was much more fun, less to worry about.