Essay: Life is currently better than when the old people were children. Preparation for TOEFL

 

Life is constantly evolving, changing and striving to improve itself. Clearly, life now is very different compared to the past. I think living today is much comfortable and easier than when my grandparents were children. I feel this way for two main reasons, which I will explore in the subsequent paragraphs.

First of all, working life is not as hard as before. People in the past had to work a lot harder to get what they wanted. Based on my knowledge, my grandparents had to raise many children. They lived in the countryside work was hard for them as they had to work to put food on the table in order to be able to feed their children. It is very different in modern times as people living in cities have comfortable jobs. Furthermore, physical strength is nor required to accomplish tasks. Therefore, in current times, living is much easier as people do not have to work as hard as they did in the past.

Secondly, technology makes everything easier. People can use machines and other forms of technology to make working life a lot easier. For example, computers did not exist when my grandparents were children. They needed to do many things on paper, things such as calculating numbers. These tasks took a lot longer to accomplish and furthermore, once they were finished, they were unsure if the answers were even correct. Hence, technology makes the life easier, because it helps to speed up the process of doing things and it can provide us with the results that are much more accurate.

In the light of the above mentioned reasons, I believe that if the people had the power to choose a time period they wanted to be born in, they would definitely choose the present as life now is a lot smoother as compared to before. This is because people are not required to work as hard as before and now, with the presence of technology in our lives, life is made much easier as compared to the lives of our grandparents when they were our age.