The Good Ol' Days
Long gone are the days when children from different social backgrounds (rich, poor and middle class) gather together to play together. Kids of these days don't know how it feels like to play soccer and dribble your opponent under the rain. The joy that comes from these physical meet ups shared with friends and loved ones, is something that I don't think can be provided by technology.
Growing up as a kid, I didn't have the opportunity to access phones and other gadgets. During those times, we go to business centers and pay a sum of twenty Naira to make calls. Gadgets were not as easily affordable as it is now. We had no phones that could access the internet. The most popular phones then were not able to access the internet. The games that were in that small phone would no interest an average kid of today to play. But, we were really happy with such games.
I remember when I would sneak my mothers phone into my room so that I can play a few games. Phones that could access the internet began to dominate the markets and life gradually began to change.
During my kid days when there was little to no internet, football with friends is one of the many experiences I would never forget. It was so nice. We laugh in the pitch. We play in the pitch. We quarrel in the pitch. We fight in the pitch and above all, we settle everything in the pitch and after that, we forget everything and go back to normal. Those days were golden.
We treat playing football like a 9 to 5 job. Not the seriousness though but the punctuality. 4 pm is when we come out to play. Anybody that is late would not get a good team to play with because all the better players have already be chosen, so, they will be left with a really bad team. Because of this, we do come to the field by 3pm or 3:30pm everyday, even on Sundays. We play till whenever. Sometimes, our parents would have to come flog us out of the field. Lol. Even at that, the next day, we would leave every unfinished House chores to hangout with our friends in the pitch.
Though technology has proven to be a very good thing, I think it's driving us away from making genuine bonding and friendship. Just imagine what I described above. I don't think there can be such a thing in the next generation because everyone is fixated on their screen. Friends can not pass through physical and emotional pain together. They don't have a shared experience which they both experience at the same time and in the same moment.
Bringing everything online is nice, but then, I don't think it's worth sacrificing the genuine bond we made when we had little to no internet.
Working from home is good. Entertaining oneself from home is good. Doing things from home is actually good, but meeting up together with friends in a public place is actually better. I consider it the best.
Thank you for reading.
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Next generation is looking good. Not only are people becoming more fixated on their screens, but they will also be marrying them soon, as their screens will be installed with A.I. companions.
I can't remember the last time I saw this.
People that didn't experience this don't know how life was before now
I saw a picture of a family at the dinner table; instead of them to eat their meal, they were all glued to their phone screen. It was quite disturbing to see. Now that is where me I draw the line between. We really should strike a balance and do things at the appropriate time.