The Mobile phone

A teacher in the USA once asked her class of 6th graders: Which is that modern invention you wish it had never been invented? One of the students wrote this note “If I can, I will destroy my parent’s cell-phone. This thought has often crossed my mind because my parents are always talking on their mobile phone. They spend a lot of time on Facebook, chatting, sending messages, photos, and other junk on WhatsApp or Instagram. They send emails and check constantly messages from their friends. And then when I have to speak to them they have no time for me, or they ignore my pleading. That’s why I hate the mobile phone !” These are heart-breaking words coming from a child who has everything, but actually has nothing, because his parents ignore him as they are so preoccupied with their friends. On the other hand some parents complain about their children spending hours on their cell-phones while ignoring them, avoiding eating with them as a family, disobeying their orders, while their school work is going down the drain. Maybe Albert Einstein was right when he said: “I’m afraid there’s gonna come a time in history when technology will destroy all kinds of relationship between us. Then we’ll end up with a generation that slowly, but surely, will self-destruct.”