Horace Goes Skiing

What a world we live in these days. The internet... literally everything at your fingertips; Facebook, Google, Twitter, PS3's, shiny new cars, flatscreen tv's with fantastic pictures, live football nearly every night of the week; hundreds of tv channels; sat navs; ipods; mobile phones; Universal Studios; DisneyWorld; digital photography; Kindles; 3D cinemas; countless restaurants and bars...... I experience all of these things now. They cost me a fortune, so why aren't they giving me extra happiness?? I was just as happy without the internet, playing my ZX Spectrum, being driven in my dad's old Cortina, with my Olympus film camera, my parents old black and white 3 channel telly, a road map, a house phone, a good book from the library, and a trip to the Circus. It's almost like we're being tricked year after year to spend more and more to remain at the same level of happiness! Not sure where I was going with that.....as I am happy.....just not happi....er.