I was raised with warm meals and hot soup. It is hard to imagine getting a salad meal over hot meal. It happens. When there is free food of eggs, wraps, fruits or bakeries, it is a surprise to end up eating the tasteless and unappealing cereal on most days. It happens. When there is choice of croissants, scones, muffins, cupcakes, white bread or wheat bread, it is a surprise to go with the hard and plain bagel. It also happens.
If we live in a country long enough, the common food become your common consumption.
There were days that ‘people are poor, and hope for a shelter or public housing’. There are some days ‘people can afford to own their place to live, houses are somewhat affordable; first house maybe inconvenient and small; there is hope and chance of upgrade’. There are more days that ‘people are not poor, eat well and buy some fashions. Houses are too expensive to think about’.
People travel more these days and have vacation plans to places like Galápagos Islands where Charles Darwin studied the species; or Maldives which may sink one day. Surprisingly the airplane has not flown times faster, unlike the breakthrough of computer power nor internet speed. Are there more interest in transporting bits-and-bytes, or commercial goods than people?
We look down mo
re, not lack of confidence, just more devices; we look ‘forward’ often to our computer. We look around less. And even less to stop and smell the roses.
There are things that hopefully stays the same. We just need to find them.
Life is better if we appreciate changes and keep the constants.
oliviatamccue 
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