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Indeed. Excellent essay; I've had many of those same thoughts myself. I remember back in high school, we'd all pile into a car and drive across town to listen to somebody's new 45 rpm record, and getting a new LP was a major event. Now kids have 500 songs on their ipods or phones and whine about it not being enough. I remember when Mom would spend a Sunday afternoon making a batch of chocolate chip cookies from scratch, and store them delicately in the cookie jar (remember those?) that was guarded like Fort Knox. Now you just buy a package of artificially-flavored crap squirted out of a machine. I'll never forget when we first got cable TV. *THIRTEEN* channels!!!! Now we have 200 channels and it's not enough. Remember what a THRILL it was to turn the crank on the ice cream maker and eventually get some.... (drum roll)... ice cream???!!!!

And of course I'm not going to talk about social media. I recently read of one high school girl whining that if she posted something on Instagram and didn't get a response within 30 minutes, she "starts getting depressed."

Too much of everything. And of course, the more you have of something, the less you appreciate it. Every person under 30 in this country should be required to read this essay 100 times. Doubt if they'd make it through the whole thing, though, it'd be too booorrrriiiinnnnnnnnnnngg.