Growing Older

As people grow older, they realize the little things that they really enjoyed doing are not as fun as they were when they were little. The traditions that have been done for your whole entire life seem boring and just not fun anymore.

At my house, we have this tradition, that we decorate Christmas sugar cookies every year. Last year, neither my brothers nor I really wanted to be bothered decorating cookies. My brothers wanted to be playing video games, and I was on the computer. Looking back on it, I feel sad that we did not participate in what used to be one of out favorite holday activities. My mom told us that she would not make sugar cookies to decorate. Knowing my mom, I doubt she will. I feel sad, that we would rather be doing stuff we could do everyday instead of spending time with our families.

Most of the time, I find myself wanting to be on the computer instead of with my family watching a movie or playing a board game. I would rather talk to my friends instead of spend time with family that I don't get to see very often. It makes me hurt indside that kids my age, would rather sit infront of a computer than spend time with people they love and who love them.

I really enjoy new technolegy, but I feel that sometimes it puts us farther away from our family. With computers that do our every wish and video games getting more and more advanced, people find themselves spending more and more time sitting in front of moniters and TV screens. I feel this is a reason that America has as many obease people as it does. People can afford to sit for hours in front of television. If we would get more people spending time with thier families instead of sitting infront of computers and TVs, I think the world would take amazing leaps towards regaining peace between families and other people.