Are We Happier than our Forefathers ?

Are We Happier than Our Forefathers ?

     Now, do you find yourself lucky to be born in the machine age, do you? Just turn around the dusty pages of time and you’ll find it all – all that you’ve ever coveted for, those-must –take-a-glimpse at least hamlets , no barking bosses , no quotidian workload ,no acrimonious peers ,no ringing cell phones and junk mails , no irksome traffic et al. All that you envy lied in their closets (read: ancestors).
     The age we live in is doubtlessly a sophisticated one and our machine civilization may soon initiate a crusade against the Almighty Himself in its insatiable thirst to trounce the fundamentals of Mother Nature but the edged sword dangling over our heads cannot be ignored. Dallying with nature is as good as inviting forces of annihilation for supper and that is exactly what the social animals seem to have done in past couple of centuries.
     All the glitz that the Google driven generation sports only forms the surface of this otherwise bleak and hypocritical society. In contrast, our ancestors actually mastered the art of living; they had a very good idea of their limits and never dared to tamper with them. They knew that a sleep can only be earned after a hard days work and eventually – they were satisfied.
     We crave for the ‘moolah’ but ultimately turn towards the spiritual gurus for gaining tranquility (which some dub as ‘Nirvana’). We have ‘it all’ but we are bereft of ‘it’.  And as ever polemical Irish author Oscar Wilde put it, “We know the price of everything, but know the value of nothing.”
     We’ve got what we craved for but have lost all we’ve had. It’s high time we try and get back to our roots or else verisimilitude of happiness will betray us at some part of lives.
     I pen all this rubbish to convince you, and if at the end of it you still feel lucky to be born in machine age – man you’re impossible!