Grown-ups are always talking about the ‘good old days’ and how things were so much better when they were kids our age. I think they’re just jealous because my generation has all this cutting edge fancy technology and gadgets they didn’t have at our age. I’m sure when I have kids, I'm going to feel the same way my parents are now, jealous of the new generation. Mom’s always saying when she was a young kid, it was great because everyone in town knew everyone else and it was like one, giant family. That doesn’t sound good to me, I like my privacy and I really don’t need everyone in town knowing what I'm doing at every time of the day and knowing my personal business. My mom says the problem with our society these days, is everybody always has their face to a screen and nobody takes any time to get to know the people who live right in front of them in the neighborhood. I don’t really see eye to eye with Mom on that problem, though. I think some space is a good thing. Without it, we would have to survive more humiliation and have to suffer through knowing things you don’t want to know. Lately, Mom’s been going around town with a petition to get people to stop using phones and other electronic devices for forty-eight hours. She’s asking them to sign because she needs a hundred signatures before she can take the petition to the Town Hall, but she’s having a hard time getting people to put down their names onto it. I can only hope she gives up on the idea soon, because it’s becoming exhausting for the rest of my family and me to pretend we don’t know her. I don’t understand why mom wants to go backwards when we can go forwards. From what I’ve heard, the ‘good old days’ weren’t that much fun. When you think about it, you never see anyone in old photographs even SMILING. In the olden days, people were just a whole bunch tougher than they are today. Human beings have evolved, and now we need things like electric toothbrushes and shopping malls to even survive. Our ancestors would be pretty disappointed with the ways humans turned out, but once someone turned air conditioning on, there was no turning back from the laziness that awaited human kind. We’ve gotten so spoiled that soon we won’t even have to leave the comforts of our own homes if we don’t feel like it. We’ll have drones delivering food, robots teaching school, AI driving deliveries, and maybe even a technology world connected to our thoughts! In fact, with the way we’re evolving, in a thousand years from now human beings won’t even have the needs for SPINES. We’ll be able to slither down the stairs or be super fast swimmers. Some people think all the technology is a bad thing and is making us soft, but technology isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Originally from Diary Of A Wimpy Kid-Old School. Adapted to become a realistic fiction. 500 required 502 met
