Every time a new baby is born, a new invention is taking steps towards completion. Chances are that the new kid will probably be handling that invention in but a few years time comparing that to the fact that not thirty years ago, there wasn’t a single telephone around to inform the happy yet tensed families. We can say that the generations are speeding towards modernisation every passing moment.
While all the new inventions are helpful, they are also killing the simplicity in every child’s mind. They’re ruining the generation in the most easiest ways; through blasting off kids’ ears with the over-the-top quality, yet ridiculously expensive headphones; through smallest, undetectable MP3’s that are probably being listened to in many lectures and class at this moment; through pathetically advanced gaming consoles that are depriving children of nature’s best sunshine and sheer simple happiness.
Teenagers listening to music and not those important lectures could face problems in future. Children glued in front of their TVs, tongues sticking out in ridiculous concentration, are missing out on what could be their perfect childhood. It’s not very likely that in the years to come, they’ll be telling their children happy ‘tales’ of their young days. But it’s highly likely that they just might be comparing video games’ graphics and in the process, ruining their child’s life too.
We need to get out and help those who are blindly wrecking their eye sights for temporary fun. Sure, these inventions are a huge help in this fast moving world, but as they say ‘excess of anything is bad’.
FATIMA MOTALA
Karachi
