That family dinner (+Technology)

In these days, during a family dinner, I noticed several things that I immediately returned thoughtful, while some talking, I began to carefully observe, every one of the members of my family, and I saw something very common in them. Is that, since the beginning of the meeting, all they greeted. Because so much time had passed since the last meeting, everything was a very nice and full of memories, but a moment to another all became a little confusing to me. 

According to my memories, we always together in a kind of circle where all we had jokes, until almost dawn. But something had changed, it was no longer the same, everything has become different, so to speak, we can say that the times have changed significantly. 

Everything went well until she began to feel a silence in the environment, to observe, I realized what was going on, all had taken their smart phones, was no longer the family reunion of yesteryear, now it was a kind of space where people drew their phones, and its unique concentration was in them, no longer existed the personal treatment, it is more because nor was a family reunion, It could not be that name.

From one moment to the next, I began to feel discomfort, tried to understand what had happened, had brought us to lose that physical contact, that made us laugh and have fun at every moment, before I thought about how exciting that were the family gatherings, when with my cousins playing in the garden, and we ran through the whole house, while adults spoke of their topics. It If were funny moments! 

The technology has given us a very important step forward as contemporary societies, we have made the world more easy, but it has been demonstrated that not everything is perfect. It is true that, through the smart phones and social networks, has joined the world in a single space, where we can communicate in a virtual way, no matter what is the distance in which we are, and that in itself is wonderful. 

But, as nothing is perfect in this world, we have regressed in several aspects, one of them is the direct communication from person to person, since all the meetings, parties, have something in common is that the smart phones is the protagonist of the talks has, unfortunately, become something indispensable for many, and I can say that until required. And that at the same time, makes me think a lot. 

Where are we going?

I believe that this is a subject in which we need to reflect a lot, and consider which moments are for the phone, and which are to share exclusively with the family, to give each thing, it’s just place. Because it is not that we have to use the phone, or become enemies of the technology, this is not really. It is a question of considering, which things are more important and to which we must pay more attention.   

This family dinner put me sad, because I felt that I was in another place. That was not the same meetings, I had been changed everything, and I realize that, capable not appreciated as should those moments where everything was more fun, and that the environment in which I was in was extremely different. 

Hopefully, had the capability to return the time and return to live these moments that strange, and that to me and to the entire family toward happy. And if we live in an entirely different world, already at least, I do not see children, running around the house, it is now, feel, play with the phone, with the tablet, or with any console videogame. 

There is all the fun for them, and for me that is a little frustrating, to see how we lose our customs with the passage of time. We use our phones, but when we are with our families, we dedicate ourselves only to share and enjoy. The phones come and go, which will not be repeated, are those special moments with your family.

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