Just ask the old people! They ate roots, bark, chaff, no food, no clothes? Live in the woolen house, soil house, now have food, have to wear, live in the building that is happy! This each has its own advantages and disadvantages, before eating green food safety, picking burdens, manual labor on the body's health! Now mechanized, not labor can not eat, eat well, chemical fertilizers, fake goods on the body unhealthy, before the bone disease, now obesity, in the end which one is happy to tell, the old man said now very happy! Young people say that people were happy before! Good state of mind! No disease even if you have to be happy!

As far as today is concerned, I think that there is a comparison between today and the past in terms of their respective strengths and weaknesses!

A: poor living conditions in the past, do not have enough to eat and wear warm, but the body is healthy, eat are not on the chemical fertilizers, no pesticides, green food, grains and cereals. Due to food shortages, people are very slim, very few generals belly, rich people disease!

Second: nowadays, although food and clothing is not worried about, but the body is not as good as before, full of streets everywhere, general belly and Yang Guifei. Today's food is not on chemical fertilizers, no pesticides, no preservatives, additives, food and no? Bad luck may also be passively sent to the mouth may be imported genetically modified food.

Third: In the past, although life was hard, there was little pressure on the human mind. More money to spend, less money to spend, no money not to spend. Few people are responsible for, and even less people are responsible for hundreds of thousands of hundreds of thousands of hundreds of thousands of hundreds of millions of dollars. In addition to food and clothing, basically people are still very happy!

Fourth: today's people, although food and clothing is not worried, living conditions are also good. But the pressure of the people is huge, the price of housing has risen, the wedding room rose to the sky. Many young people in order to buy a wedding house is also heavily indebted, in order to pay the mortgage, but also day and night desperately trying to make money, work. In order to pay the mortgage every day is also downcast, listless, tired of exhaustion, tired of fertility decline!

Fifth: before how to eat are our own country production of safe food. Nowadays, foreign junk food occupies half of the sky, our motherland flowers, the motherland's future, the motherland's hope, eat foreign junk food have eaten into a small fat, premature maturity into a small adult. By the foreign junk food harm to the flowers of the motherland, let people look at the heartache ah!

Sixth: In the past, the living conditions were poor, hungry, but healthy. Usually is a cold and fever and so on, quite a bit will pass. If you can't, you can just spend a few cents to buy two days of cold tablets and eat them!

Seven: nowadays living conditions are good, rich and expensive disease is also more than countless: what this tumor that cancer, this gonorrhea that poison, this branch of the frame to build bridges, open the intestines and belly: this make up a little, that cut a little and so on. Even feel a risk to the hospital to see: registration, blood sampling, laboratory tests, filming, filming CD, this light that light, and intubation, and hanging water, and infusion and so on. Timid and afraid of things may be a small cold was scared to no energy, dull eyes, lose the will to fight, lose hope, see through life, see through the red dust. In short: to cure a cold without a thousand dollars do not want to leave the hospital, or sign the consequences of their own, out of the hospital door is not responsible! Nowadays, some small colds can really kill you!

VIII: Formerly simple people with high moral character. 夫贵妻荣，夫荣妻贵，夫妻恩爱，夫唱妇随，相依相伴，相互信任，相敬如宾，相依为命，相互尊重，相依相偎。 A man plows and a woman weaves, a husband teaches his children and honors his parents!

Nine: Nowadays: except for the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s, are there any couples who have not gone over the wall? Are there any who have fluttering flags outside? Are there those who do not return until midnight or stay out at night? Have you ever worked the first day of the week and I've worked the second day of the week? Have both husband and wife never wet their shoes? Nowadays, money is the most important thing and love is like dirt!

X: Formerly, couples were pure in their love, faithful and loyal!

Eleven: Who doesn't have a few friends of the opposite sex in a couple nowadays? Couples can do each for two, that is even faithful, even model couples!

Twelve: Nowadays, people's feelings, character, greatly inferior to the previous, the responsibility is not all blame on the contemporary people. To thank the network big brother, network platform, network big brother platform social software (credit)!

Thirteen: As the motherland continues to develop, strong and prosperous, the country is prosperous and the people are safe, the country is rich and the people are strong. The life of the people of the motherland will certainly become more and more happy and prosperous!

This short post is only meant to make the strip happy and smile, nothing more! [Praying] [Praying] [Praying] [Praying]

Now that living conditions are better, do people feel happier than before? First of all, understand that living conditions and people's happiness, although related, must be two different concepts.

Living conditions mainly refers to the necessary conditions for people to survive and develop, mainly including the quality of material conditions and the environment, the spiritual factors of a comfortable mood and relaxed, relatively free.

Happiness is the feeling in people's minds that they are happy when their needs are met and they want to keep them forever, hence the saying "those who are satisfied are always happy".

There is no denying that the material conditions of people nowadays have improved tremendously compared to the past, and that the social life is rich and colorful with a wide variety of goods. But after all, it is not a communist society, but a socialist society in the vestibule stage of communism, so people's happiness varies from person to person and is not the same. Happiness and no uniform standard, whether happy, only themselves and their own comparison, everyone has everyone's feelings, can not be uniform, everyone the same.

Happier and more socially harmonious before

Happiness is a very remote word without a specific definition, when you are very hungry, have a mouth to eat is happy, when you are very thirsty, have a drink of water is happy, when you can eat a full meal, and then have a mouthful of soup to drink, is happy. When you can have a mouthful of soup when you have a full meal, you are happy. When you can watch TV after you have had a full meal, you are happy. This shows that the definition of happiness varies under different living conditions. Therefore, we can not say that the living conditions are good, it must be happy, but should be said that the goal is to achieve the desire to be satisfied, you are happy. Happiness is sometimes cheap and sometimes priceless. The key to what kind of happiness we want depends on how we define our own happiness. I think the more easily satisfied people are, the easier it is to be happy.

It can be said with certainty: the present is happier than the past. Some people feel that they are not as happy as they used to be, and that is because they are not aware of their happiness.
Let's define the concept of "before" and draw the line at 1990 for the time being.
In 1990, the reform and opening up had already taken place for more than a decade, and people's living standards had initially improved; there were no laid-off workers or bankruptcies at that time. There were no laid-off workers and no bankruptcies. As long as people had a job, they did not worry about receiving wages. All trades and industries, workers and peasants were happy. In most areas, anyone who could buy a new house of eighty square meters was too happy to be true.
Thirty years have passed, and when we look back and look again at 1990, we will find that the happiness we had then was a very low level of happiness, just as we now see the Africans of today who are happy all day long.
At that time, a lot of unattainable extravagance to today's mostly become a reality, to buy a car has become a common thing, buy a set of eighty square meters of the house are embarrassed to publicize; people's life expectancy in the people suspect that the question of food safety to extend the quality of people in the present is not as good as the past in the sound of scolding gradually improve some of the elderly in the young people, "bad people get old! Some elderly people, in the condemnation of young people "bad people become old", tell of the goodness of their youth, in the spacious housing nostalgia for the past, no need to spend money can be divided into small rooms in the past.
Infinitely exaggerating what was good in the past and what is poor today is probably the common problem of Lu Xun's nine catty old lady.

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I can tell you! I am very happy! I am currently retired, no more stressful work, no more 8am-5pm, more leisure, joy, pleasure. To say how life is, it's the old adage, sesame seeds blossom!

Life is good, the mood is not to mention, have a good life, do not worry about food and clothing, have a pension, want to buy whatever you want, have a car, have a house, have money left over, the children are able to live independently, and live a good life, for the current me is the god of the day.

Life is good to share the well-being of the country, every day life is very high taste, do not have to think about spending money. Fresh, delicious, want to taste, purchase, no negotiation, the follow-up life without worry, can be considered to enjoy the happiness of the family.

People are old, is a good life, today's national policy is good, reform and opening up, advanced science and technology to lead, people are living a good life, life has changed dramatically, nothing to fitness exercise, strengthen the body, enhance physical fitness.

Leisure time to travel, visit the country's great rivers and mountains, to enjoy the great rivers and the north and south of the local customs, cozy life, so that people find a dream of a happy life! Today, I feel is happiness! With a sense of well-being, is happy, is to find the direction of life, old and happy, live a meaningful and valuable!

Now it's just that society has progressed and everything is more advanced than in the past. First of all, let's compare, in the past, we lived in almost all bungalows, burning fire to cook and warming the bed, no household electrical appliances, poor living conditions, and every day, we also have to chop wood and burn coal, there is no modern cell phone manually, and the network is not developed.

However, we eat environmentally friendly ah, eat vegetables and food are green food, people get sick very little, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer are rare, although eating side dishes are not casually buy, with the purchase of a certificate of supply, but, but also to meet the needs of the people.

Eat the crude food, the monthly supply of fine grains is limited, almost all coarse grains, cornmeal, corn ballast, millet. Few fine grains of white flour per person per month five pounds, rice per person per month one or two pounds, three pounds of the annual festival, soybean oil per person per month half a pound, life is very simple, however, people are very satisfied, no one can not afford to buy a house, can not afford to marry a daughter-in-law, can not afford to pay all kinds of fees (heating, gas, property, water and electricity and so on) to worry about, there is almost no pressure.

Now life is good, want to eat what have what, clothes do not have to buy the New Year, usually want to wear what to buy what, live in the building, do not have to split wood every day to burn the fire to cook, with all the electrification, refrigerators, televisions, computers, washing machines, rice stoves, induction cookers, etc., but people do not feel happy, enjoy all the support in the money, if there is no money and then the progress of the life you can not enjoy.

Food always feel uneasy, say go to the supermarket to buy oil, but also ask: "Is it pressed, or extracted. Is it genetically modified, or non-genetically modified." Summer to the vegetable market to buy vegetables also have to ask: "You planted on the vegetables on no fertilizer, hit no pesticides." It is not assured, so, eating is not assured, get some common diseases, high blood pressure, high blood fat, diabetes, cardiovascular disease.

Is it that the better people live the less happy they are? No. It is that today's society is just too much pressure, and the comparison is serious. In the past, a person earns money to support a family, now a family of two people earn money to support a child is difficult. Your family has, my family should also have, desperate to make money to meet the daily expenses of the family, so, and the past relative to the material conditions of life is better, but, just can not feel what happiness.

I called a relative yesterday to wish him a happy 85th birthday. He and his partner are both teachers, and the two of them have a combined pension of more than 10,000 yuan. Every morning the two of them walk and then stop by to buy groceries, do some housework, watch TV, and then go out for a walk after dinner, and the two of them are in good health. So, on the phone he said many times now feel very happy. This is a matter of mindset, can do contentment is good.

I am 70 years old and a retired old teacher. Now I run in the morning, do some housework, take my grandchildren to and from school, play headlines in my spare time, sing on my cell phone K-platform, watch TV, or have morning tea with friends, travel, etc. My life is quite full. Now I don't worry about food and clothing, my body is healthy, and I can often run half-marathons and occasionally run full-marathons, and my family is in harmony, so I feel happy. Don't compare yourself with others, don't mind your own business, don't nag too much at your juniors, and correct your mindset, and you will live a happy life!

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Now the living conditions are better, but the material abundance, the amount of money, can not replace the happiness, what is happiness? Happiness is a feeling of being happy from the bottom of your heart without any pressure in your life.

However, in today's life of great material abundance, but the gap between the rich and the poor is getting wider and wider, compared with the vast majority of people, although they are in a colorful world, but that can only be unattainable. Because they are in the rapid development of the economy today, re-burdened with a new "three mountains". In today's increasingly high prices, to ensure that the monthly payment of housing mortgage loans, to ensure their normal basic life, is the greatest luxury, the so-called happiness and where to come from? The so-called living conditions are good, but where does happiness come from?

So this is why the majority of workers and peasants at the bottom of the hierarchy, although they seem to have no worries about their food and clothing at the moment, their future prospects are uncertain, they cannot withstand the wind and have no carrying capacity whatsoever. They are full of worries about the future and lack a sense of achievement, happiness and security.