The Town Life and the Country life

The Town Life and the Country Life

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William Cowper, the famous English poet wrote, “God has made the country and man has made the town." This famous quotation expresses the difference between town life and village life. In the country we see God made the wide open sky above, the ever green trees and meadows, beautiful flowers and murmuring streams on the earth below. But what we see in the town is man-made product.

It's true that both town life and country life have their own advantages and disadvantages. In the country there are no good roads for easy and pleasant transport. It lacks in recreational facilities to satisfy different tastes. The sanitary conditions are unsatisfactory, and so are medical and educational facilities because good doctors and teachers generally avoid villages on account of better opportunities. Even the shops can't always supply all the necessities of modem life. So people have to run to nearby towns for their requirements.

But the country life has its bright side also. The fish, vegetables and fruits we get here are fresh; the air we breathe is pure. We are in direct touch with nature which enables us to retain something of our divine origin.

Towns, on the other hand, provide us with all the necessities of modern life. There are good roads for comfortable transport, electricity for physical comfort, good schools and colleges for better education, good hospitals and clinics for proper medical treatment and good shops to meet all our wants. For recreation there are different clubs, libraries, cinema halls, parks, zoos, etc.

But town life has its disadvantages too. The air is full of pollution and the food is mostly adulterated. Its constant din and bustle tells upon our health.

Thus country life and town life stand in a striking contrast. The facilities of one are the drawbacks of another and vice-versa. The people of the town are more cultured, civilized and cleverer than those of the village. But still the life of the village is worth enjoying because it provides tranquility, calmness and peace of mind which are apparently absent from the life in the towns.