Children no longer walk dogs on the street. They don’t climb trees, they don’t jump rope, they don’t play ball. Your best friends are your phones.
Today’s children play 10 times less than they did 20 years ago. The number of children under the age of 15 who can play without a mobile phone is halving every ten years. Official data.
Young people are no longer in the parks. They don’t have dry leaves in their books, they don’t pick daisies to see if they like it. They get into tinder today and know everything by looking at Instagram, Tik tok and adding the likes of their social networks. If it weren’t for the photos hanging there, they almost didn’t know each other.
Their world runs through the screen of a mobile phone. They prefer to live in their rooms, which have been transformed into digital communication centers thanks to Wi-Fi. They just go out to eat in a high society place or drink in those big bottles they arrange in the parking lots of discotheques, while they no longer open at ten or twelve, but at two in the morning.
Most don’t know what wet soil smells like, have never stepped on grass or breathed mountain air. Keyboard urbanites whose only interest in nature is to use it as a screen saver image on their computers.
If you happen to see someone on the street by chance, they are distinguished as they walk enchantedly to the mobile phone screen. Experts now say they all suffer from “Environmental Deficiency Disorder.” It’s possible, but I’m afraid it’s partly our fault. For them, milk and eggs will always come from the refrigerator, never from a cow or a chicken, among other things, because if they did, they would be very disgusted. They made fast food, cement and asphalt their nature. What a pity.