Do you want a better life or an easier one?

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Ding-Ding

It's all perspective. I grew up on a farm with no electricity or running water. Got up at five to milk the cows, feed the hogs and chickens, pumped water at the well, brought it in to the house, ate breakfast that mom made on the wood stove, stopped in at the outhouse, washed up, then walked a couple of miles to country school. After school, work in the fields, evening chores and clean-up after supper. Week-ends were spent baking bread (not this frozen loaf thing, either), laundry, gardening, canning, cleaning the root cellar, sewing, etc. etc.

I remember when they wired the house for electricity. Will miracles never cease?!?

Trappings! What trappings. We were just barely surviving. It's still that way. Don't have a car. Can't afford a home. Walk a lot. Shop thrift stores. Clip coupons. Pay $480 dollars a month for heating oil just to keep the temp at 62 degrees warm in the winter.

Hon, I would opt for easier at this point. Harder is just too wearying at my age.

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Wonderstar

Lol Honey I'll opt for both and good health as well!!xxx

bluedog12

A better life.

It is because people want to take the easy road, that things are out of control in South Africa!

Skyli

A better life for me would be an easier one.

Lucky Man 2

both

Lark

I don't mind harder if it means I can have a better, happy life. I wouldn't want an easy life and be miserable all day.

Rebecca

A better life that's easier to keep.

Dicko

I'll agree with Skyli. When all is said and done, you get one crack at it, and you can't take it with you. So there is not much point in running after the trappings of success if you never get the time to profit from them.

Bianca

Two for one please .

Laura H

I love my life exactly how it is in s.a. thank you

Sharoz K

better life

Travelling md

Is better not easier and easier not better?

Joppie

A better life with a ballance does not matter if its hard work
In die sweet van jou aangesig sal jy jou brood verdien
easy come easy go

en die kombuis meit het ook 'n eiertjie te lÃª

Chris

good question... ill go for better

xealllgirl

Our government claims to seek a 'Better Life for All'. That is what I want, too. A better life for my loved ones, friends, community, country, continent, planet.

I think a 'better' life is 'easier' by default. What makes life 'less than desirable' AND 'difficult' here is the violent crime and poverty (in a nutshell). These factors affect all South Africans, and are not rectifiable in the short term - there is no 'miracle cure'. That is not to say they are impossible to rectify - it's just going to take time (nobody can realistically speculate how long). At the end of this battle, life will be better, and easier for all.

probablygraham

Good question - I think even if you have to work hard to get a better life it's always preferable if there's a guarantee. In the modern world it doesn't seem to matter how hard you work, you still get a worse life, and nothing ever gets easier.

thumba

I think if one has a better life his or her life does become easier . If you can be content and appreciative .

nic

What you need is a balance of the two.

cheri

At this stage, an easier one, i think i have worked long enough, Slipper man said i could go on pension ........so who knows what happened to him

Hennie IV

If I really had to choose? A better one. But then because it is better it could also be easier, no?

Ethel

My life is hard because of the white man. a better life would be no white man that would make it easier.

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