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Most of us love the quick service and easy availability of goods that technology provides. It is not that hard to see why web surfing has become the main pastime of people. Where else could one hope to get information about any topic under the sun while chatting with a friend, listening to the latest Beyonce number and buying a GAP tee shirt at throwaway price?
The ease with which anything gets done may be to blame for the replacement of things that show love and care with things that are less time consuming. How many people, nowadays, count letter writing as their favorite pastime? How about walking to the neighbors' home for a little chat? Internet, hi tech phones and an increasing number of time saving gadgets have changed our lives considerably.
When I was a kid, only an important function necessitated new clothes and prompted a tour of the local market. For little kids, today, visiting the neighborhood malls for random purchases has become an everyday necessity. Filing nails was a simple task before the compulsory manicures and pedicures came along.
Elders would ask the giggling kids to jump up and down their backs for an easy back massage; but that was before the ubiquitous spas dotted the streets. Why play with noisy children when a little cash could provide a heavenly rub down in sound proof spas? In another era, mommy's painstakingly prepared dishes were the favorites of every child, now they are replaced by the fast foods at Pizza Huts and Mac Donald's.
Most people of the older generation
