However I know that's improbable, in today's modern age it's impossible to live in a vacuum. Take jobs for example, for our parents, jobs were for life but for us job-hopping is a reality. Increased job flexibility, higher prosperity leading to increased choices and a more laissez-faire attitude towards working means that job stability and loyality are a thing of the past. Further, with today's increased level of education, people are more adventurous and more informed resulting in more and more people are moving and immigrating, aided and abbetted with increased opening up of international borders.

For me though, I believe this to be more detrimental then beneficial. Impermaence is accepted so casually today that I feel that we tend to value and appreciate things less and less. Secondly, despite people gaining more opportunities with migration they lose relationships with people, it's harder to communicate and keep friendships around the world with such impersonal forms of communication as email,letters and infrequent meetings. I miss the time of my granny, where people knew each other from birth to death and friends often lived next to each other for decades. Whatever happened to forever?

To be fair though we have gained a lot from increased change and emigration. More progress, increased talent and cross-culture sharing etc,etc,etc, the list goes on and on. Moreover I know that's unrealistic to expect nothing to change.

But for me, I miss the old times.