Your Life Is Better Than You Think

Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore

Susie Moore

Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Life Coach, Motivational, Personal Development, Mental Health, Life Coaching, Self-help, Education

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Have you ever stopped to consider how extraordinarily privileged we are to be alive right now? In this thought-provoking episode, we explore the astonishing contrast between modern life and what came before. Just imagine - penicillin wasn't discovered until 1928. Before that medical breakthrough, a simple tooth infection or infected wound could be fatal. Our parents and grandparents grew up without running water, electricity, or reliable communication systems. Messages traveled slowly betwee...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.
0:09.7	You know something that's fun to ponder?
0:13.0	How good our lives are today.
0:16.3	How good they are today.
0:18.8	Think about it.
0:19.9	We take so much for granted. Look, we can't, we kind of have to.
0:23.3	We can't just be grateful for every single thing in every single moment. But if you zoom out,
0:28.2	if you zoom out and even just see what life was like a hundred years ago compared to now and
0:34.2	you get to be alive today, how many blessings, advantages, conveniences you have,
0:39.5	we live better today than royalty you still live. No air conditioning, no showers, no internet, no
0:47.1	Uber eats. Think about everything, all these privileges we have access to today that make our
0:53.6	life so easy and good
0:55.4	that even the richest among us, or the most significant among us historically didn't have access to.
1:05.8	You know, this is a fun thing to ponder when you're thinking about the next best opportunity for you. I was listening
1:13.4	to something recently and I heard, gosh, I think I wrote down the day because I want to get it
1:17.6	correct. But the year that, ah, yeah, penicillin was invented. Penicillin was invented or discovered,
1:23.2	right, in a petri dish from some moldy fruit to moldy peach in 1928.
1:28.6	So not even a hundred years ago, pre penicillin, a tooth infection could take you out.
1:35.6	It could be your death.
1:37.4	Even if you had a wound on your body that was infected without penicillin, you could die from that. And this is not even 100 years ago.
1:50.2	Whatever I think about this, what we have access to, how lucky we are to be alive now, how
1:54.6	we're living better than kings and queens used to live. What I think, what comes to me is,
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