房东教我写英文作文（摘录日常mail沟通）

前两天和她聊到了社会焦虑问题，和她mail沟通里面，今天她的回复是非常可以作为英语作文范文的。当然，本人很不喜欢应试型写作，但是这个mail确实是不错的素材。

I'm looking again at your thoughts below on the prevalence of worry and on the question of happiness/unhappiness. Maybe you can be more specific about the situation in China. However, it seems that these concerns apply to most places in the world. People everywhere are worried, and struggling, and thinking a lot about jobs, family responsibilities, prices, and so on. There are big problems and uncertainties such as climate change, population growth, limited resources, unpredictable world markets (you probably know a lot about this last problem), etc.

Above and beyond all that, the general sense of unease has been exacerbated over the past 10-20 years by the increasing pressure, demands, and addictive potential of online "opportunities" which can also be limitations or restrictions. Quite simply, we used to have more time to think. Texts, emails, and phone calls were not coming around the clock. People slept more instead of looking at their smartphones in bed. When they sat on a bus they could read or talk, but were not constantly getting little dopamine hits from their Instagram or Twitter feeds. The first Apple smartphone came out in 2007, which is 15 years ago. These devices, coupled with their current underlying business models, are a big change for the human brain; their effects, and especially their excesses, have increased the levels of agitation and worry.