“Nowadays, kids don’t play outdoors. All the time they are glued to their computers or gaming consoles”, I bet many of you have heard this from some or the other elder. I know many think it’s the “GENERATION GAP” but I beg to differ. There are reasons why today’s kids don’t spend as much time outdoors as they should. And the computer and gaming consoles being addictive is not it. It plays a role, a minimal role though. There is a bigger reason. Every kid in India is aware of it.
I love playing cricket and football, and I enjoy playing them more than playing a game of ‘CALL OF DUTY’. But here is the problem, where do I play? There is no where I can play. I obviously can’t play in my house, because I would break things (expensive) if I did that. If I played in the street, the neighbors would start shouting at us. Most of the time this neighbor is an old lady; I have never quite understood why these old women are always so frustrated. The reasons they come up with vary from one circumstance to another. But there is a fixed set of these excuses. Here’s the list:
->you are making too much noise
->this is not a ground
->you will break the windows
->don’t play (they don’t have any specific reason. They just try to force there will upon you)
So with all this it’s impossible to play in the streets. The only option left for us is playing in a ground.
‘Ground’, almost sounds like an extinct word to me. Most of them have been converted to parking lots. And in parking lots, you definitely can’t play . You would break some car’s headlight if you did. There are anyways few of them (grounds) left, very few of them. But we can’t even play there. The elderly people have conquered these grounds and transformed it into their jogging/walking zones. They shoo us away from grounds. So where do we play?
It’s an amazing paradox. They want us to play and they give us nowhere to play. This is probably what happens in the majority of the cases and this is why kids stopped playing outdoors.
We would love playing outdoors. But that would happen only if you let us.
To all those who speak such things about the new gen kids, there is only one thing I can say:
Try to solve these problems first AND IF YOU CANT JUST KEEP YOUR F***ING MOUTH SHUT!!!
