Not much, in my generation's childhood, there was poverty in material matters compared to today. Serving chocolate candies as guests, watching "Black Lightning" on black and white TV, running around the field until the evening after a loose ball, trying to iron each other with soda caps and apricot seeds, not being able to sleep until the morning because of the joy of new shoes bought during the holiday, ordinary plastic shoes bought from the market. Looking closely at the built car, attaching a rope to the empty Turkish delight box and pulling it as if it were a car, and many other simple details were luxury for us and we were happy. Eggs were too valuable to be sold by the box and were eaten with great appetite the day they were on the table. If one were to rebel a little against material poverty, it would be said that "the next generation of ours bought bread with ration cards, or that our grandfathers collected wheat grains from the ground during the War of Independence, boiled pieces of dried skin and drank them." more ostentatious. Obesity has increased in our society as a result of abundant eating/drinking, virtual lives/works have increased thanks to the blessing of the internet, green areas/empty fields have given way to luxury houses and shopping malls, and traffic has become inoperable as single-person vehicles with plenty of seats fill the roads.< br />
As a result, wealth increased in material matters and new poverty came to the fore; We became poor in time and emotion. “I don't have time to do/go/read!” We said, and indeed our workplaces became our temples, our homes became our hotels. We had to work hard to consume, we had bills to pay, credit card debts, used loans... What we didn't have was our time and happiness. We are now unable to do activities that we could not do in the past due to lack of material resources, due to lack of time and inability to enjoy them.
Our poverty of time and emotions gave birth to others: we ignored ourselves, we lost our physical and spiritual health, our sharing with our spouse decreased, we could not be a good role model for our children. Our relations with relatives/neighbours/friends have disappeared, our individual/social responsibilities have become a burden, we have forgotten our human characteristics such as smiling/loving/falling in love/greeting/inquiring about things/complaining/helping/giving thanks/sharing... br />
The expression "I am unhappy" has become so common that many of us have begun to think that we are "socially sick". Is every person who says "I am unhappy" really sick?
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