We have so many advantages over our ancestors—
Newsday (LI NY)did a story on the actual medical/physical condition of our founding fathers and their level of common daily discomfort. It was shocking how much pain these people suffered even as they were founding our country.
People keep talking how stressful life is now...I say look back in time and I doubt that anyone would want to go back to the days when clothes were washed and wrung by hand in a wooden tub, we had no flushing toilets or modern sewer systems, no modern dental equipment, no deodorant, no cars, no planes, no paved roads, no antibiotics, no modern “lady” products, no sewing machines, no air conditioning, no right and left shoes, and on and on. We don’t know what stress is compared to those who came before us.