The Past

Imagine how boring life must have been back in the past. Today, we have so many gadgets, activities, groups, and assignments to keep us busy. Most everyone in America in today day of age is easily entertained for a whole day or longer by just sitting in a chair, a couch, or lying in a bed with a gadget, its insane to look back at how much time we spend entertained on our devices. There is a feature that scares me sometimes. I play video games, not excessively, but regularly, and there is a feature that tells you how much time you have played that game for, and all of the games that i have played over the years i know that I definitely have spent over 1,000 hours of my life sitting in front of a screen playing those games, that's more than a month! That scares me a little bit.

Think back 200 years ago when there was no modern technology, the most advanced entertainment were books, and most people could not afford a near infinite amount of books like everyone can today. Kids only had each other to occupy themselves, tag, hide and go seek, and any other made up game that they would think of. And adults didn't have the option to sit in front of the TV like they can today. Like was super boring, at least to us now.

But was it really boring to them, we only think that it was boring for them because now we have better options for entertainment, they didn't know what they were missing out on, think of the entertainment possibilities 200 years from now, maybe they will be looking back on us and thinking "how do they even survive, how did they not die of boredom", as time progresses forward so does technology, and so does entertainment. No matter how new and exiting entertainment seems now. There will be better entertainment to outshine today's.

So back 200 years ago, was it easier get bored, were they even bored. Or did they not consider themselves as bored because they just didn't experience quality entertainment?
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