The question of whether life is better now than it was in the past still values pondering. Many people claim that current life is indeed better whatever aspects are. However, in my respective opinion, this is a biased perspective and I only partly agree with it for several reasons.
Previous life pales in comparison to present when it comes to material life. The advent of various kinds of modern equipment has utterly changed our life over time at an accelerated pace, bringing us better amenities and infrastructure. Meanwhile, this hardly happened in the past, especially before globalization, people tend to stay in a particular place due to the lack of transportation. As a result, we cannot learn from countries beyond our reach, explaining why the speed of development in the previous times was unmatched to the present. This deeply underscores the advantage we’re having, which is impossible in our ancestors’ lives.
Admittedly, some might argue that current life also prevails over the past in the comparison of spiritual life. Their arguments often rest on the belief that with the development of social network service, people can choose a way to entertain and take it as a therapy, a way to heal themselves. I, nevertheless, am unconvinced by this line of reasoning as it overlooks the darkside of social media and fails to recognize that it causes serious psychological damage for some users. Therefore, compared to the beneficial things it brings, we have paid a heavy toll for it. In previous times, people didn’t deal with so much pressure, deadlines, and force from many sides, whereas it’s what we have to get used to in the current fast-paced life. These are the things we sacrificedfor a better material life.
In conclusion, life’s complicated, the development of everything is both beneficial and disadvantageous for us in different aspects. Like life nowadays, some people have a better-standard life but are dissatisfied with the mental life. It depends on our own perspective on life.