There is so much at our fingertips. We can read about anything, talk to anyone, buy anything we need from anywhere in the world without even getting out of bed. It's all so convenient.
Just like anything else, convenience also has a cost. I'm not referring to cost in terms of dollars and cents. I mean cost in terms of what we've lost or what we give up in exchange for convenience. These costs include loss of skills, self-reliance and the sheer joy of doing.
But they're not really lost. They're just available through alternative options.
The great thing with conveniences it that they're optional. We don't have to do things the easy way. We can cook instead of eat out, sew something instead of buy it, do something ourselves instead of paying someone else to do it. Along with the final product of a meal to eat or an item to use or something that's been fixed, doing things with our own two hands gives us experience, improved skills and satisfaction that money can't buy.
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