Modern Life - learning to enjoy the little things I start this essay with a term that means so many different things to so many different people. What is the definition of modern life for you? Does the term bring with it negative connotations or positive ones? Does it encompass your whole being, or just your daily mundane tasks? For me, modern life means the way we as humans, in a sweeping generalisation, now live compared to previous generations. With advancement in technology, and as a result fundamental shifts in the 9-5 mentality, changes in the economy and the modern family unit (read: separated/co-parenting) becoming more widely accepted, things are far far different in our world than they were for our parents – both good and bad. I call this controlled chaos. Take the kids to school, go to work, run a couple of errands on your lunch-break, assist at school, complete homework with use of the internet, cook-dinner, run dog, take a w...