Are we happier than our fore fathers?

Contributed by: Amber Ahmad on 31st July 2004 at http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/thepointofview

Well the question that made me write, just came while some of our old family members like my mom's uncles n aunts were discussing that "humaray zamany main yeah hota tha, woh hota tha, beemaree nahee thee, hum sabh chotee chotee baat par khush hojatay thay etc etc..."

While they were talking about it, I was thinking, are we happier today? Say it the other way, are we happier than our fore fathers? Today we have lots of luxuries n easiness in life, fridge khola thanda pani hay, TV for entertainment, music, gas n electricity most of the time, we follow the trends in fashion as much as we can, spend a lot of amount of money on junk food, have a car to drive to any place we like, but still after all that are we happier.

What I feel no we are not, today we have lots of other issues to settle, other life problems which make us uneasy at the time we sleep, we dont have peaceful sleeps any more these luxuries are helpful no doubt but they are also tking away the small happiness from us, today we have the best doctors to serve us but at the same rate the number of illness n diseases is increasing, so the ratio remains the same.

Any ways think abt it "ARE WE HAPPIER THAN OUR FOREFATHERS?