Can you live the way your parents live before?

Philippines
February 25, 2009 7:24pm CST
My parents always tell me that back then they survived without the convenience of today's technology like cellphones, computers, washing machines, air conditioner, DVD players, etc. For me, I think they lived in a very hard life. _
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@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
26 Feb 09
Hi NarmiErin, as I’m quite used to the current daily lifestyle, I think it must be quite awful to live the same way my parents living before. It definitely must be quite troublesome and inconvenient to live in those olden days which we could hardly find what the advance facilities we could enjoy nowadays. There are so many convenience and facilities which we could enjoy in so many aspects. I love and enjoy surf net, contact with my loved ones and good friends via cell phone, watching favorite movies and listening to music as well with DVD player daily. Travel from place to place driving my car or by advance public vehicles and so many things else. My daily life must be extremely bored and monotonous if without this convenience. Happy posting and have a nice day.
• Philippines
27 Feb 09
Yes, without these technologies I think my life is going to be pretty dull too! _
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@peavey (16936)
• United States
26 Feb 09
Yes, I could live like that. I've studied it and done my best at one point to do that. It's not stressful, and women had more time then they we do now, because there weren't nearly as many demands on her time. It was healthier because it was more active and mentally healthier because one is more in tune with the earth and real life instead of virtual situations (like this one)
@peavey (16936)
• United States
26 Feb 09
I think a lot of times people don't understand what they're missing, living the way we do now. How many stars have you counted lately? Ever tasted milk fresh from the cow? Had real homemade butter? Ever worn a pair of hand knitted wool socks? (Nothing is as comfortable!):)
• Philippines
26 Feb 09
Wow! I really admire you. I really can't live the way my parents live before. _
@marketing07 (6266)
• South Korea
26 Feb 09
oh,yes why not..i love the simple way of life..but it turns upside down..
• Philippines
27 Feb 09
My parents always tell us that simple living is the best! You get to everything in simple ways. Life back then was not as complicated as it is right now. Oh well... Sometimes, I want to see what they saw in their time. ^_^ Thanks for sharing!
@reckon21 (3479)
• Philippines
5 Mar 09
Yes, definitely. We can instruct our mind to slowly accept things the simple way. It's just a matter of trying and doing it in a long run. If all this high tech gadgets will fades soon, I will be ready then.
• Philippines
5 Mar 09
It's like mind over matter. We just have to prepare our minds into doing something. But I really don't think high tech gadgets will cease to exist though. Thanks for sharing! ^_^
• China
26 Feb 09
Hi, i can not live well without the high tech equipments. In this mordern seciety, high tech equipments play an important part in our life, we are accustomed to them. I think our parents are strived hardly without these equipment. We wil live a life different from them.
• Philippines
26 Feb 09
Yes! We're born with these high tech gadgets that it is very hard to live without it. ^_^ Parents are the best! They give you all the support you need! Thanks for sharing!
@mamalev (264)
• Philippines
26 Feb 09
i can't imagine living the life my parents did back then. i could still remember there was no electricity, no water pipes and my mom used to go to the river to wash our clothes. my parents are my idols, my heroes. think of what they'd been through all those years and with three kids ( the fourth one came when we're a little well off so he didn't experience so much hardships in life). that's why kids nowadays take things for granted, they never experienced how hard life was.
• Philippines
26 Feb 09
Thanks for sharing your story! Actually, my parents always nag us that we take things for granted. _
@clickicy (571)
• Indonesia
26 Feb 09
hi, I can live a life without today tech. No computer mean an easier job - without jungle database misery or spaghetti code to trace. No automobile means no an hours daily mental excercise. Plus an extra body excercise would shape my body. no banking system mean no global recession-ups forget this line as i do have a loan to pay...
• Philippines
26 Feb 09
You actually have a point there. What makes life easier makes it more complicated. Did that sound right? _
• United States
26 Feb 09
It is so hard to say that we could, as we live now in a different time. I mean of course I could be without my dvd player, but then I just wouldnt have anything to watch when there is nothing on... I couldnt live without my computer, I could read on days that are quiet and things go out and I cant use them...but I dont know if I could do it for a long period of time...LOL happy mylotting.
• Philippines
26 Feb 09
Me too! Without computer I find it very hard to enjoy life. I've been so used to turning my PC on first thing in the morning, during lunch breaks, and the whole night. _
• United States
26 Feb 09
I could live without all of that stuff as long as I also had the perk of not having to work. The women that lived like that lived in a time where it was the woman's job to stay at home and keep house. She did not have time to help pay the bills. It would not be fun, but keeping house isn't fun with technology either. As far as TV, computers, and stuff like that, I like to read books more than watch TV.
• Philippines
26 Feb 09
I also like to read good books! ^_^ Women get to stay at home and do house keeping. _