The Lost Race of Humanity

When you watch the rain run down the windows like the trickles are racing one another... Is that not more fun that scrolling through pictures of people's dinners and status updates about day 4 of their man flu? When the clouds move all around like floating jigsaw puzzles forming uncanny resemblance to a penis or a dragon on one leg... Is that less engaging than Harry from One Direction snogging Kerry Katona's nan in The Ivy? Why don't you want to lie listening to your children sleeping instead of Will I Am on your iPod?

Has technology and celebrity taken over the most special things we ever had? So far I know I sound like  a poet eating pot pourri, but I have a point. 

People don't eat as a family anymore. Kids don't kick balls against kerbs with other kids. We struggle to communicate face to face. We don't know how to show each other emotion or care. I don't even know my neighbours name, let alone her brand of sugar to borrow.

I like simple things. Nothing fancy. I don't need twitter or picture sharing things. I like to have life. Breathe air, visit friends as family and eat rolo's. I don't want to talk to someone twenty minute away on Skype. I might forget what they smell like. I don't want my pictures saved on Flickr. I want to flick through them and stroke the memories that I miss and savour them. Rolo's are alright. I don't need a Special K rolo style cereal bar to keep down the weight I haven't lost from clicking over to my friends new house on google earth this morning. 

Maybe I'm a spoil sport. Old fashioned and closed minded for my years. Or maybe I just feel that we have reached a point in our development and understanding of technology where we are replacing everything about us that makes us human. If life gets any easier we will all live to be too old and there'll be no room for babies or new animals to be born. We might be extincting our own race through greed and ambition. We are trying to make contact with space. With aliens. I disagree with this is so many ways. The main ones being that we don't communicate with our parents anymore, forget the aliens and give your dad a cuddle. And the fact that we are sending out communication signals saying "Hi, we're earth and we come in peace". We have these language problems within our own world. We don't KNOW what they're hearing. It could be "hi we're Twats and we'll bomb your houses." 

Leave things alone. It worries me. And this 2012 doomsday, end of the world, Armageddon, panic stations rumour is feeling more and more real every day. Someone, somewhere has been building robots to fight in Afghanistan. They are making MACHINES and teaching them SAS tricks. If one malfunctions and tells the rest they'll just kill us. All of us. It's worrying. Everything man made goes wrong at least once. My cooker did it earlier. Burnt my croquettes. It just proves you can't trust anyone but yourself.