I never really thought about how important the internet was until yesterday. Until then, I always took it for granted and thought it was a given to have. I never gave a thought about how hard life would be without any internet. Now I finally appreciate the luxury of having a personal internet connection in my house.
Now you may be wondering why I talk about such a minor event. Well, this led me to realize that I take many things for granted without a thought about what life would be without it. I'm going to use my iPod as another example. At a first thought, it may seem like an unneeded luxury to have an iPod touch. It is somewhat unneeded; I survived perfectly well without it in fifth grade. But naturally, I slowly began to take advantage of it. I now use it for many daily activities like planning, communications, and much more. Without my iPod, I wouldn't know what time to go outside to meet my friend and walk to school, I might forget the dates of major events, I couldn't listen to music without opening my laptop.
My theory, which I am naming the expansion theory of humans, says that we don't need many things that we think are important to life, but after we get a luxury, we slowly incorporate it into our daily life so much that we can't live without it.
