Opinions vary regarding whether today, life is easier and cozier than when our grandparents were young. I disagree with the statement for the following two reasons. For one thing, we cannot enjoy happier our life than our grandparents did because of fierce competition. Moreover, deteriorating environment makes our life uncomfortable due to air and water pollution.
First of all, today’s heated competition causes people to lead an unhappy life. In the past, our grandparents could enjoy less stressful life. Of course, they had to face some degree of competition in order to perform well at work and school. However, that cannot be compared to that of today’s heated competition, which drives people to live a more difficult and unhappy life than our grandparents did. According to a study conducted by Korean National Research Center, 71 percent of surveyed people answered that they are facing fierce competition with their coworkers, have been learning new skills such as computer and language skills in order to survive at work. Based on the study, they do not even think of taking an easy attitude toward life. Also, there is no doubt that they spend most of their time to their job. In this context, today’s people lead less happy and comfortable life than our grandparents did.
In addition, our deteriorating environment causes us to lead difficult and dangerous life. In these days, there are a lot of elements that disrupt our environment. The problem with this is that destruction environment is able to pose a serious risk to our survival, which did not concern about people’s health when our grandparents were young. Thus, today’s people are hard to lead a happy and comfortable life due to deteriorating environment. For example, some people have difficulty in breathing because of increased air pollution, which can cause respiratory illness. Also, water pollution prevents us to have easy access to food source in water. This contrasts with our grandparents’ age, when they breathed clean air and caught fish in lakes. Unlike in the past, we are force to uncomfortable lives by a variety of pollutions.
In conclusion, it is not too much to say that today, our life is less easy and cozy than when our grandparents’ age since we face fierce competition with our coworkers and friends, as well as serious a wide of pollution such as air and water. |