新G Issue 27 大家帮忙改一下吧 - ChaseDream

The author asserts that the luxurious and convenient life of nowadays would likely to prevent people from becoming strong and independent. As far as I am concerned, the statement is just partly right and I will unfold my opinion in the following part. And the “strong” here I would like to indicate being healthy and “independent” represents being less dependent on oneself.

To some extent, I agree that the contemporary life can impede the development of people being strong and independent. At first, we become more and more dependent on the convenience bring by the modern technology. The society we live in is now fully-equipped with advanced and high technology products that are more and more indispensable for us, such as the computer, the mobile phone, the car and so on. Every day, we use the computer to study and work; we apply the mobile phone to get in touch with our families and friends as well as play games or read novels in leisure time. What if the computer break down and the cell phone lose? Most people will feel disappointed and they can’t do anything. That’s because we have become too dependent on our convenient and luxurious life. We store all the information and work materials we need in the computer; we regard the “normal life” as using our phone almost all the time. Once the seemingly convenient life paralyzed, we find that we rely less on ourselves and the quality of independence disappeared.

In addition, the luxurious and convenient life make us not as strong as before. The most conspicuous phenomenon is that when you go into the hospital, however small or big, it is like that you step into the market because the hospital is always full of people and the hum is around your ears all the time. People’s health level has evidently decrease with the standard of living increasing these years. We eat the convenient McDonald or KFC when we don’t want make meals by ourselves or when we don’t have time. We rarely do exercises because more people have less leisure time and even if we have, we’d like to sit on the sofa, watching TV and eating and drinking. We go to work in cars or buses rather than ride bicycles or on foot and thus the air condition deteriorates and we are, in the end, the victim of the bad environment. Therefore, people indeed are less strong compared with decades ago when people do more manual work and eat more healthily.

However, these modern devices and live conditions can in other circumstances help people become strong and independent. With the help of the computer and smart phone that almost everyone has, people of contemporary time can complete a work by himself that needs several people to achieve ten years ago. On solving problems, today’s people is more independent and they can do such things using the knowledge they get from modern education and check what they need from the internet. Consequently, the luxuries and convenience of life promote the development of being independent. What’s more, the life condition now can also enhance people health when people use it adequately. We have many more hospitals and the healthcare system now, so people can do the examination periodically like every half year and in such case, we can known our health condition and if somewhere goes wrong we can treat it at early time. The convenient medical service guarantee us a strong body.

In conclusion, the contemporary life can both prevent and promote people being strong and independent with its characteristic of luxuries and convenience. The different effect comes from how we take advantage of the luxurious and convenient conditions. Only by understanding the potential negative impact can people become strong and independent with the convenience and the luxuries.