what a wonderful worrrld

my my my.
its absolutely astonishing to see people these days stuggle with futile tasks, easily accomplished with mondern technology, compared to the hardships of building something like the Coloseum. After visiting Italy, and seeing how old, but how beautiful everything it is, it makes you realise just how reliant man has become on technology to do simple things, myself included.

I struggle to imagine myself in those times, actually doing laborious work and having to do it for my village, for my family and survival, instead of now, stacking a few shelves and actually getting paid to do it. Places like Italy are abundant in culture, you just have to be prepared to find it, instead of looking for the easy way of finding it. Looking at a museum from the outside, taking a photo and reading about it on wikipedia or google is not the same as going inside and first hand experiencing it while you get the chance. If you look hard enough into the struggles of the past to do something considered so simple these days, like build a house, or plumbing, it makes you realise just how lucky we really are.

I've seen the evidence of people having struggled severely to just put a piece of bread on their families table, and as in every culture, there are the rich but now, lust and greed have over taken regular things. Instead of fighting for bread, we're fighting for control, for money and for material possessions that'll do us no good when we're dead. Seeing how much better things turn out when you work for what you want makes me want to work that much harder in life to achieve the things I've got, the things I want and the things I need.