Modern Convenience or Modern Hindrance?

Modern Convenience or Modern Hindrance?

On YouTube the other day I listened to a recorded interview done in 1941 of a man who was 98 years old. This man talked about his life in the wild west, a little town called Los Angeles, and fighting in the civil war.

The interviewer asked him a question about what social life was like. The man laughed and asked what was social life? You work from sun up to sun down… not to sell things but to survive.

The new age has brought about a lot of great things, like modern medicine. But what about our modern conveniences? How great are those things? Now people have so much time on their hands they are worried about hobbies, self-expression, being bored at home, spending 4+ hours a day on phones or social media, watching TV or playing games. We’re worried about things like farting cows and what gender our children want to be. We are so overweight that we literally die from it. So much of the world’s anxiety could be diminished if we didn’t allow ourselves to have the time to sit and cultivate it.

We want more money to afford more convenience, more leisure time, more stuff, and we’re willing to sacrifice the best interest of our family for it. The women who stay home have to answer the same question people ask over and over again, “what do you do all day”?

People, we have too much time on our hands.

We want bigger and better and more convenience and it’s making us stupid. We now have the greatest, grandest, library at our fingertips (the internet), and we use it for Candy Crush. We have created an entire generation world addicted to “fun”, instant satisfaction. Instead of disciplining our minds, we settle for cheap and easy entertainment.

There are some positives though that I think we should be thankful for. Like not dying at an early age by working ourselves to an unhealthy state. More time to sit down and educate our children. Modern irrigation to water our food and not starve if we have a dry year. Instant communication has a lot of positives if you filter out the bad.

Since I created a new life resolution to log off from social media (with my blog’s Instagram being the exception) I feel like my mind has flourished. I’ve become more focused on what I’m capable of accomplishing with the time I have, given to me by modern conveniences and my husband’s provision of them.

She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.Proverbs 31:27

Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to restProverbs 6:6-11

And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you1 Thessalonians 4:11

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