We are a society of too much.

We have computers and phones with instant access to movies, games, information, videos… the world at our fingertips constantly, yet we are bored.

By spoiling ourselves with this overload of media, we have ruined ourselves. We are no longer able to enjoy simple things and see the wonder in the world. New things excite us for a short time but our patience has worn so thin thanks to “progressing” technology we get bored with these new things within a matter of days, maybe even hours. Oh boy, you got the newest in phones for Christmas. Within a week you’ll be tired of it and it’ll just be another addition to the pile of electronics you have and use only because you’re addicted.

In the old days, kids could entertain themselves for hours kicking around an old aluminum can outside in the fresh air. They could climb trees, build forts, play hide and seek, and have fun for a whole day without any fancy toys or gadgets. You try to get a kid to put down their tablet and go outside today they’ll probably curse at you and tell you to shut up and leave them alone.

Technology is ruining us. It is killing our imagination and creativity (not to mention making us lazy and unhealthy), and it is starting before children can even walk when their parents give them tablets to play with and put them in front of a tv or computer instead of actually playing with them and giving them things to help their minds and bodies.

I’m not some crochety old fart saying these things. I’m a 26 year old woman and I grew up without a computer. We had a television and a nintendo, but our Mother MADE us play outside and would not ALLOW us to be watching tv or playing nintendo all day long. I’m so grateful to her because I see what children and teenagers are becoming thanks to all this “progressive” technology.

Sadly, most of society is totally blind to it. They’ll keep running after the latest technology, spending big money, and losing themselves more and more in the glow of an electronic screen.

How long until we just plug ourselves directly into a computer and let it take over all that we are physically?