Nowadays, people always try to work hard in order to have a better life. Though our living standard has been improved dramatically, our quality of life is not as good as it is in the past in many ways.

            First of all, many people cannot efficiently allocate their time for relaxing and working. In order to meet higher daily expense and to avoid unemployment, people have to work harder than they did in the past. Moreover, to many individuals, their job is no longer a way of earning a living but gives them a strong sense of personal fulfillment, which turns them into workaholics. The more time people spend on working, the less leisure they have. It causes an imbalance between working and relaxing, which makes it difficult for people to enjoy their happy lives to the full.

            Secondly, the majority of people become more and more materialistic. Nowadays, people tend to measure success and social status by the properties we own. Therefore, with a view to gaining respect from others, people always set themselves many material goals such as buying a modern car or a new house, etc. Even when they already possess those luxuries, they long for better ones. They are always obsessed with their goals and let materialism little by little dominate them.

            Lastly, family life seems not as happy and cozy as in the past. People now are inclined to giving more priorities to their business meetings rather than their family gatherings. In addition, their ultimate goals in life is gaining material things, not having a happy family life. They might think only material properties bring them a happy life and look down on spiritual values. Therefore, they only exert themselves to be successful in their career and ignore their family. It leads to unhappiness or even breakdown in modern families.

            In general, modern life brings about a lot of drawbacks to people. In order to overcome those drawbacks, we had better give more priorities to leisure activities, spiritual values and family life which we used to neglect. Hopefully, people can both enjoy their modern life and happiness at the same time.