History

Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you?

This question is so 58 years ago. I haven’t played for years. We didn’t have children so we missed out on revisiting our childhood by playing with them.

I used to enjoy the old days 40 years ago though. No mobile phones, no computers. You got together with mates, played stupid party games, and laughed until you hurt.

They weren’t sophisticated, they weren’t addictive, they weren’t expensive. They didn’t give you repetitive strain injury, or ruin your eyesight. They didn’t isolate you with a phone when you were in a restaurant with friends, and they were a lot more challenging than endlessly matching three things. A lot less numbing than killing the enemy.

I actually find so called games now extremely stressful a lot of the time, mainly because you’re actually bored witless but you have to get through. No matter the cost to pocket, posture, wrists, or eyes.

But don’t worry younger people, I know you possibly don’t get it, that’s because these are your good old days. Enjoy them, revel in them unashamedly, have your youth, and fear for the next generation.

You two will be shaking your heads, worrying about the effect on your kids of what they call fun. Talking about the good old days when life wasn’t lived with a reality altering chip in your brain so that you never had to engage with the real world.

They might need it unless the adults alive now do something to make this a better world for their future. A world where war doesn’t exist, and games don’t cost you hundreds a month. A world where you can finish a game, then go onto something new and fresh. Keep your mind alive.

Every generation sees deterioration in quality of life, but I can’t help feeling we’ve gone way too far on every level.

But remember, we didn’t mount a strong fight back because this crept up on us slowly. At first it felt like progress, then money became a bigger god than world peace, fresh air, and food for all, and it was too late.

The older generations weren’t slack, we saw it, we argued against it, we still are, but we could do nothing because commercialism caught the younger generation. As it was designed to do.

Now you have to have an expensive computer in your pocket, on your desk, in your refrigerator. Plus with AI you can trust nothing. What you see and hear isn’t real anymore.

You’ll only get the real fun back if you can somehow get control of power, and you do that by not allowing it to corrupt you. Or own you.

Put the games down, take the headsets off, leave your desk, shut your laptop, go out and have some real, insane, connected fun.

You’ll never regret it!

Best love for a happy ALL year with tons of friends

Amorah – Deb