THE LUXURIES AND CONVENIENCES OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE PREVENT PEOPLE FROM DEVELOPING INTO TRULY STRONG AND INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUALS.

In previous years people used to learn the basic things from their family or friends, this usually involved skills that supposed be useful during the whole life. Clearly all the conveniences and luxuries from nowadays have affect some skills that are very important such as cooking at home, repairing basic things or even travelling. In the past, a lot of people use to get teach about the basic concepts of cooking, which would allow them to prepare their own meals at home, if they didn’t have enough money to eat out. However nowadays is very different, more people is depending on restaurants or getting microwave food which is usually easier, however this could cause some health issues. For example, during the pandemic was hard to get food from restaurants, this took people in getting more ultra-processed food, making them totally dependable from this products that are not great. On the other hand, in the past children use to learn how to use the most common tools, to repair or solve different issues that might be around the house by watching their relatives. For example there is a higher percent that older generations would know how to fix a whole on a wall, but today many people doesn’t even know the materials or tools that would be required for something like this, instead the first step is consulting it on internet, but if for any reason this is not possible the changes to solve it by the knowledge already acquired are very low. To conclude, society has change a lot, providing humans a different kind of luxuries and conveniences that are not hundred percent great, doing this people has lost levels of independency and creativity.