▶ Your Answer : A thought-provoking current issue concerns whether or not
people who live in this quickly-changing world are happier than they were in
the past. Some believe that people used to live a more enjoyable life than they
do now. It is therefore timely to consider the validity of this perspective.
For the following reasons, I believe that people are less happy than they were
before. First, their works are overloaded due to consuming of too much information;
secondly, people don’t have enough time to enjoy their hobbies.
To begin with, people who are living in this easily-changeable
world are given too much tasks to complete, which make their lives very hectic
and miserable. As the Internet-based technologies has emerged in modern society,
most of companies give its employees a large amount of information to deal
with. And it is for sure people cannot catch a glimpse of happiness in a
situation where you have to work 24 hours everyday. For example, I used to work
at a customer service center as a part time job and I had to answer more than
100 phone calls from the customers full of anger and complaints. Also, it was
my duty to submit reports of every complaint the customers made to my boss, I
just had no choice but work ceaselessly. This example shows that the
overabundance of information and resources today are keeping people away from
pursuing the value of happiness.
In addition, people usually lack time to enjoy their hobbies
today. Because of the heavy burden from their working environment, as I
mentioned above, people find it hard to have some spare time to enjoy their
hobbies. For instance, my cousin has recently started to work at a trading
company. Before then, he used to go hiking every weekend by which he could keep
his life going vigorously. However, these days he is dealing with too much work
at the office and does not have any time to go hiking as much as he used to.
The example of my cousin shows that living a hectic life in this modern society
took people’s time to do what makes them happy.
As I mentioned above, I believe there is less chances that
people can actually find their own happiness in this quickly changing world. This
is because people have much burden of work on their shoulders, and they are deprived of time to enjoy their
hobbies.
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