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TOPIC: ISSUE124 - "Instant foods, instant communication, faster transportation-all of these recent developments are designed to save time. Ironically, though, instead of making more leisure time available, these developments have contributed to a pace of human affairs that is more rushed and more frantic than ever before."
WORDS: 487
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2009/8/20 14:48:44

With the social developing so fast, we human beings are leading a faster pace of life. We eat fast food, communicate with others instantly, use faster transportation. We may find ourselves more busy, whereas it doesn't mean that it is the developments that contribute to a pace of human affairs that is more rushed and more frantic. Instead of making our life rushed and frantic, the advanced developments make our life more effective and wonderful.

Maybe some one will complain that people are getting busier and busier for utilizing these advanced techniques and have little time to rest. However, it is not the developments but the various of ideas of people that cause the problem. People in our society are different, and all of these unique people have their dreams. And in order to make the dreams realized, people have to make every effort. They take the instant foods to save time, use the instant communication for business and take faster transportation to be more effective. It is the dreams and ideas to push people to do so. And the people sometimes push themselves hard unconsciously until they are really tired, then this is the right time they will start to complain the development which they thought made them rush. Thus, we could attribute every disadvantages to ourselves. If we human beings are not so eager to make our dreams come true, we could surely enjoy the peaceful of the life using the advanced developments.

Actually, the developments mentioned above never did anything bad to us, in contrary, they have been continually making the earth a better place to live for mankind since invented. And the people who benefit from them will never say that these useful developments make theirs life more rushed and frantic. And the following examples could aptly illustrate the points. Housewives appreciate the instant foods a lot, because tanks to the convenience of it they have much more spare time to do other things like gardening, watching TV and even chatting with their close friends which would never happen in the old days. Parents who live far from their descendants could use the cell phone or Internet to instantly communicate with them now rather than writing traditional letters like before. Businessmen now gain a lot more profit and convenience from the fast transportation which is really efficient. So we are just make our life easier and the job finished faster by using these development. If we take it easy and have some stops during the process, we could enjoy the advance of the developments and the leisure time provide by them.

In conclusion, instead of the developments like the instant foods, instant communication and convenient equipment, it is the idea, conscious or unconscious, of our that make our life so rushed and frantic. Therefore, we could control the pace of the life and enjoy the beauty of life although still use these developments.

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