Our Other Friends

Slowly we lose touch with what is important – with people and with nature. We don’t spend time with others as we used to, we don’t play very often, and the less we laugh and get closer, the more we alienate ourselves. Not even parents have time for their children – they are constantly working and they are always in a hurry… And even when they do have time, it appears that they, in fact, do not have it at all. If only children were and would stay what they are – children. However, instead of playing in the park or in the meadow, instead of walking and spending time with each other, we send text messages, e-mails, we use phones and chat for hours, despite the fact that we all live in the same neighborhood. It seems ‘‘nicer’’ to text someone, to send an e-mail, to watch television or stare at a computer while days of sun and beauty of nature pass us by forever.