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Some people think that modern people less happy and satisfied than those were in the past since today is more competitive and stressful society. However, in my opinion, people are much happier and more gratified these days for the following several reasons: advanced transportation and Internet. First and foremost, advanced vehicles allow people to get happier lives. This is obvious that compared to the past, people live more convenient by using various transportation, such as car, bus, subway, train and airplane. Those make people go on a trip for escaping from the reality much easier, resulting in relieve stress effectively and recharge energy. According to a study, there was a huge difference between two groups of students in happiness index. Students in Group A traveled once per month on average and those in Group B seldom went other place. The researchers compared and recorded the outcomes that the former group showed much higher level of happiness than latter one. Moreover, students in Group A got higher grade than others. This was because trip played a significant role in dealing with stress as well as making fun. On top of that, people can be more happy and satisfied by using the Internet. Unlike the past, modern people can get a wide range of information and what they want to know on the Internet. Moreover, they can a variety of activities, such as talking with others who live abroad, shopping online and learning something new ideas. I will talk about my grandmother’s story to illustrate this point. When my grand mother was young, she was not able to go to school because of poverty. She wanted to know how to read and write, but she had not chance to learn the language at that time. On the other hand, today there are various materials to learn about language and other subjects whatever people want to study on the Internet. In addition, those are even free or not costly. This demonstrates that today’s people can achieve their goal much easily, thorough accomplishing, people can feel satisfaction and happiness. To sum up, although modern society is stressful and competitive, advanced technology, vehicles and Internet, encourages people to live much enjoyable and satisfying life. In this regard, I firmly believe that people are much more happy and gratified these days than people were in the past. |