Impact Of A Soul To A Soul From A Soul

I was out with my mum today like normal as I go out with her like every weekend. It’s like a family day kinda thingee where we go out shopping for food, household items etc etc etc. Yada yada yada, call me a baby or a mummy’s boy if you want to, but going out with my family is a priority for me like every week and I am so liking it…
We were out in this shopping complex (UE3) and so happen there was a pool of people in the main wing. It’s a drawing contest for kids. It so happened that it was prize giving time, so I stood there for a while and a political person was invited to give speech and do the honour of prize giving to the kids. In his speech he touches on his younger days where he used to roam around in the backyard, rivers, catching fighting fish, fighting spiders and so forth. He said the importance of the day was the parents participated together with the child in the competition… do you get what signal he was trying to send out??
I was not keen on the outdoor since I was young but then again I did participate in a lot of these child development activities thanks to my naughty friends. They taught me the art of catching the fighting spiders, fighting worms, catching worms, catching fish, and load of other stuff.
OK OK, you guys don’t have to guess, I am not so young so therefore I am quite old if you wanna know. I am the boy who grew up with thundercats, B&W Mickey Mouse, He-man, CBS video game, Michael Jacksons, Billie jean, We Are The World and stuff like that. I then changed my focus to video game which span from the famous rival of ATARI the CBS, micro genius, PS, Dreamcast, and my current PS2. ok, that’s enough bout me for the time being…
What I really want to touch on is our youth… we have all grown from different era, different environment and definitely different locations. During my childhood I used to hear the elderly said “during my childhood days, I only have… / I did this and that…”. Their childhood are more towards the environment like fishing, worming, spidering, riding bicycles, climb trees and other stuff. When it was my time, it’s like a hybrid where I like in the concrete jungle and the only land and trees I see is the backyard or some tall grassy land. I guess nowadays these locations are somewhat less likely to be found in places especially deep in the jungle of concrete which is called Kay Elle.
I remember that even during my time, we buy kites, we buy “gasing”, we buy marbles, we play with cards with lotsa picture and hit until my hand goes numb kinda things. I am actually curious about the activities for children nowadays, I mean what are their past times??? Blogging is definitely catching up as I type this!!! With all the constraints that we have now like children are kept in the house (coz scared of kidnappers), some disallowed to join camping and other outdoor activities coz scared of injuries or getting lost in the jungle.
How meaningful has our childhood been??? Can we look back and say we did this during our childhood, it was so much fun!!! I have heard the debate on this before which revolved around the childhood of the older generation where they were exposed to a lot of nature, and basically self discovery. The debate at that point was our children are slowly being ripped of that pleasure of self discovery in life, thus rendering them to not know the nature. It’s like me as well, I mean I don’t know a lot of plants and trees, insects and sounds, in real life as compared to my friends who are elder and lives in the suburban. Are the children today who lives in the total concrete jungle, will be totally naïve to nature??? Will they even know what a “Cengal” tree looks like in real??? Will they even know what a squirrel looks like and behave in real???
But I think there are stages in life and of coz revolution in life. The direction of the evolution is that we have been directed to the digital age, where even a 8 years old child is better verse in computer than most adults we might know.
What kinda childhood do you think is right???
What do you think of your childhood??? Share your thoughts and experiences…