Hello my dear friends of PH, today I want to share with you a topic that I have been thinking about since the pandemic became longer and longer. Even today when new mutations of the virus are announced in countries where it seemed that everything had been controlled, the measures are taken again with much more strength in their compliance and after the idea of learning to live with this disease I have started to reflect on what it will mean everything experienced by the children who have started their lives in pandemic.

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All those who have children or are immersed in family groups where there are children can see and experience firsthand the reality I am trying to refer to, nowadays our children after confinement have become people with too many fears and one of the most striking is the fear of human contact, being close to other people who even at some point were close to the immediate family nucleus becomes a source of stress and even distress in many cases. Today our children speak little, are distracted little and their hours are distributed between school work and the little they can do at home, considering that parents also have to fulfill work obligations that are now from home and ensure the welfare of the family.

Our children are people whose joy is concentrated in watching attentively some TV program (in the best of cases within the bad) or spend their hours anchored to social networks and on the computer, we adults in the same way, our contact went from reality to virtuality and give us a hug now is an act that can bring with it a number of health complications that we wish not to know and therefore avoid it, the sad thing is that even in the family we have lost that contact.

Future generations will face a world with limitations of space and physical contact, where games that are not online through platforms and social networks will not be understood, technologies have taken over our lives to the same extent that we have believed that they are indispensable for the development of our own existence. If we think a little about future generations in terms of the consequences that confinement and isolation have brought with them we will realize how alarming it can be. Imagine for a moment all that you were able to do in your childhood, adolescence, youth and as adults, the good experiences and friendships consolidated by going through good and bad situations, the family parties, the weekend trips that were not only part of the recreation and oxygenation of our life but were our existence as such.

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How many of us can say that our best friends are people we met in kindergarten and that today even after years are still by our side, can our children say the same? when many have not even experienced school because they started their education at home and they are two years and counting. Those who have some talent such as music, painting, writing and others that are developed and perfected with the support of teachers who help us in art schools where we also meet talented people, certainly there are many tutorials on the internet that we could put to our children but still we would be talking about that they would not have any kind of interaction.

Today my reflection goes towards what we can still do so that future generations do not believe they are an extension of some computer, so that our children understand that we are the people who set the parameters of technology even though every day we want to sell us the idea that technology will have a life of its own and will even dominate us like in a famous movie. Today my reflection is for all of us to find the balance that our future generations will need, it is not about underestimating technology nor overvaluing it, it is about going back to the basics, to the simplicity of life and the existence of human beings.