What is it about times past that is so alluring? We often think of times gone by in highly romanticised way, forgetting that life was hard then without the modern conveniences we take for granted.
When I was younger I loved to imagine that had I lived in a previous century, I would have worn the most beautiful of ball-gowns and gone to the ball in a horse-drawn carriage. The of reality of history is that I most likely would have been a parlour maid cleaning out the ashes!
Times are hard now for many but no harder than they have been in the past.
It's important to enjoy what we have and not to hanker after what we haven't.