We thought we are the bunch of cool kids around the town, way smarter, ahead of times, and the exposure that all of us have gotten by studying in different parts of the world. But hold on people you are mistaken here. The children of today’s era are unimaginable, so witty that leaves you surprised most of the times when they answer back. The approach towards things, the stubbornness, and their attitude is so demanding, aggressive and the maturity level is over their age. At times I wonder what the next generation is going to be like. What more?? I might be sounding a little out of the box, but seriously.
The toddlers already know how to open an iPad, to listen to their favorite music and eating food , the logical reasoning that they want in everything, the analysis, the one liners, forgetting what a bicycle ride is, what ringa ringa roses are, or for that matter any outdoor game. Here I am talking about technology to actions, to possession of a gadget, or say how the creativity of a child is going down. When you think about it, this is happening all around, even with us, we are so hooked on to our tablets all the time. Our day to day life feels so different when we are off the internet.
But there are definitely some of the things that the younger ones are missing out on:
1. Playing hide and seek and spending much of the time at the outdoors. Run to play as soon as you finish your home work and now kids run for their homework only if they get time from online gaming.
2. Value of money has definitely depreciated .There was a time when a certain amount of money was given for the entire month. We were to eat, travel in local transport, chill in that budget. It is so different now. The kids are never satisfied with what they have. This is true for any social animal though.
3. They are missing out on writing with fountain pens, filling your pen with ink was such a task. The shirts getting dirty with ink blots were pretty normal.
4. Listening to the songs through cassette. And buying one for the undying love of our favorite singer where we would have one of the albums.
5. The time has passed so quickly: – started with floppies, and then came to CD’s, and then some pen drive, and now you can keep your documents on your Drop box.
6. Everyone’s searched substance for their projects in encyclopedias, used dictionaries and thesaurus for our grammar, but since all the answers are on Google, why the pain!!
7. Giving out personalized postcards, greeting cards over the mail, this generation has hardly sent letters.
8. Collections on stamps, coins were one of the famous hobbies and it surely increased our knowledge and geography too. Wouldn’t say it is extinct but it is getting less.
9. The rings on the landline are hardly heard, as kids have started owning a mobile phone too.
10. The children are happy in their own company; they are not bothered about what is happening on the outside for days and nights.
The times have changed, and so have we but seeing the change wherein belongings are becoming history is sad to see.
