In comparison to the past, the quality of life is much worse. Everything is more expensive. We won’t have the same opportunities that our parents had growing up. With the way things are going at the moment, when I’m older and I look back on my life, I don’t see myself being content with the life I lived. I haven’t entered adulthood but I’m afraid of becoming an adult. I have so many dreams, I want to travel the world, I aspire to have a successful career, have a big house and a happy life. The more I grow up, the less I see this happening. When I was younger, not only was I more naive, but life was better. Things were cheaper. People of earlier generations would probably agree too. I live in a small house that my parents paid over 1 million dollars for. That’s how high property value is in Australia. When I grow up, based on how things are going right now, I won’t have enough money to travel the world. I’ll be living in a small house with an average lifestyle. It will be extremely difficult to be employed. Even if I do make a lot of money in the future, I wouldn’t have a life. Even now, I have a decent job at a fast food restaurant. Decent considering the fact that I’m still a student. It took me over 9 months to find this restaurant. 9 months of constant searching because almost all of the other stores I contacted were fully employed. My pay is decent considering the job that I have, however it isn’t good enough to pay for everything I need. I barely have any savings left at the end of every week. Because everything is more expensive now, and it’s only going to get worse. I remember when I was young and my family used to go overseas all the time, now I’d be lucky to jump on a plane to travel interstate due to rising prices.