LIFE
you, too, are to title a post “LIFE” and write what comes to mind. Make it thoughtful and original - I don’t want to read “life is a journey” or “life is a gift – that’s why they call it a present.”
The simple life: pioneer times, when families were farmers because that’s how they got the food they needed to survive. They built their own houses, raised animals, grew crops. And that was their day. After day, after day. Not much free time to visit friends, or go horseback riding for fun (the horse was probably tired from plowing). Could you ’survive’ that life? No electronics, heck, no electricity. Stoves used wood, which had to be gathered and chopped. School? maybe, but definitely not “year-round” – you have to be home to help summer harvests.
This came to mind from mentioning LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE the other day. Would you be able to tough it out, living in a house made of sod, or a log house with no glass windows,. Besides the ‘ewwww’ of outhouses, what parts would be tough for you? Were people “tougher” back then? How’d we get to be soft, then? Will you expect your kids to do what you have to now? (why/why not). Is a ’simple’ life all that it’s cracked up to be?
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The pioneer life sounds BORING, BORING BORING.
But maybe, I’m used to going on http://www.artofproblemsolving.com and playing a few games every weekend. I’m used to relying on computers (television and cell phones, not nearly as much), so if I were born in the 1800s like Laura Ingalls Wilder, then I would be used to that life and say, “Oh, I love my life.” And, if I knew what the 21st century would be like, I would add, “Gosh, that life sounds boring!”
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P.S. *totally irrelevant to the life topic:
I think I know why we have a spike in visitors from around the world: because there are rows of advice, and one is a link to “Themes Separated in Comments”. There’s a link to that, and on that page there’s a link to this page.