WORRIED FOR FUTURE CHILDREN

Asalamualaykum Warahmatullah,

Today's blog is going to be something that I think about regularly. Not in depth, but regularly. 

As time is moving, things are changing, particularly in recent years. 

Some of the biggest changes in society have occurred which will continue to impact future generations. 

Not only will they grow up in a world where they have not experienced 'how it used to be' but they will grow up in an environment that may potentially contradict any teachings that parents may give their children.

Not only this, but we are becoming materialistic people, and therefore we already experience watching little children knowing how to use and iPad before they reach the age of 5. We have 6 year olds demanding to have the newest phones on the market. We have 7 year olds wearing make-up like they're some kind of adult. We have 8-9 year olds giving attitude. We have 10-11 year olds no longer interested in education.

The list goes on.  

We complain that time is rushing by, yet we allow the children of today and tomorrow to engage in activities that a few years ago, belonged only to the adults. 

What happened to playing in the mud and building mud pies. 

What happened to splashing money on a new swing set. 

What happened to wrapping warm and going outside to play tag or badminton or hide and seek. 

It is only when you think back that you realise those were the times when you are truly happy. 

A friend and I were playing a very small game of tag yesterday and it was then that I realised I was laughing like an excited child that I was like - if it can still have an affect on me now, imagine how ecstatic you would be as a child! 

On the contrary, kids are obsessed with their technology, and I don't blame them, but its the very fact that they're exposed to it and parents no longer have a lot of time for their children that its the quickest route to keeping them quiet. 

Because of this, obesity is on the rise, laziness is on the rise, materialistic gain is on the rise. 

I just pray that as we age, some things move forward, but the right things move back.

At the end of the day only the simple things in life are what fill our souls, not the complex, obsessive, materialistic things. 

Oh how we change ...