We have seen better days

Very often I hear this from people of my age. I used to hear it from my parents. The context of this quote by Shakespeare in the play may be different but we use it all the time to lament how we were a better generation and so on.

I can say our generation was better, we listened to our parents, we had regular hours, and we actually played with friends not video games. We did not have hundred channels on TV and we were in touch with our culture.

But is it really so? We had the hippie movement when we growing up. We had government controlled media which was actually a mouthpiece of  the then incumbent party. We did not have access to latest information of what was going on in the world.

Humans have a tendency to stick to the past with nostalgia. It reminds them of the age when they were young. Yes, I agree that kids today are on their iPads or computer all the time and they don’t play. I also agree that we have a generation growing up without much care about their culture or rituals or religion.

But the kids today are smart, they know what they want and they are more aware than we were. The world is changing and we keep standing where we are we will regress because the speed of this change is very fast. Change is the only constant in this world and the sooner we accept this and move with the times, the better off we will be.

So be it!!!