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The Simple Life I Remember Oh how my life has changed, but its not just my life its everyones now with all this inventing going on the things we have today are so different then when I was growing up. In 1861 when I was a child we lived in poor little run down shacks of wood on dirt streets with no iceboxes to keep our food from spoiling, we had to keep our food in cellars or in running streams in our back yards. Now a days kids ride trolleys to and from school, but when I was a child we had to walk for miles in the snow, rain, and sometimes violent storms. These kids think they have it bad, well I wish they were around to see what all we had compared to what they have today. The Morse code for example we didnt have that but they do and they can send messages to people all over the country. They have iceboxes, which also means they have fresh food for weeks. They have running water in the house so no more running to the well to get fresh water. Bathrooms in the house, no more running outside late at night to use the bathroom. The times are changing so much. An industrial revolution is happening right before my eyes. Things are being produced more rapidly and efficiently. Factories are hiring large amounts of workers which means alot of new houses are being built. There are apartments for people who dont need houses, and large housing facilities for people with large families. Our lives are changing so much that I hardly get to see my wife, I come in from the factory, eat and go to bed to get up early in the morning to head off to work again. My kids have no time to do chores with all the schooling that they are doing they have alot of homework that they have to complete because education is big and many kids are going to college these days. I have no idea what the world will be like in years to come, but I can only imagine that my grandchildren will have it even much better then how we have it now. If the world continues at a pace it is at right now then I can say that by the 1930s the world will be so much different that people will have to get high educations and complete college to understand all of the simple things of the future life. History