When I Was a Child…

When I Was a Child…

by swatkinslaw

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” (King James Version, 1 Corinthians 13:11)

Today, in America, we are addicted to youth. Far worse today than it was during the 1960s and ’70s of the Baby Boom era, grown men (and women) act as though they were 15–30 years younger than they actually are. What’s wrong with this picture?

Addicted to cell-phones, video games, and all kinds of technology, we forget that first and foremost we are human beings, inherently social creatures who need human-to-human interaction from birth to death in order to properly fulfill our purpose as a species. We largely avoid conversations in subways or trains, crowds, and other social settings. Imagine: going to a night club and three-fourths of the people are on their cell phones while dancing. Imagine: going to a restaurant as a family, and all four people are seated at the table, cell phones in hand, with nary a word exchanged between or among them. Imagine: going to a movie theatre, and having to be reminded to turn off your cell phone.

Then, instead of going on physically-challenging vacations, more and more people give up two weeks at work, in front of a computer, to stay at/near…