Today's Kids!

When I picture a kid, it’s usually a cute girl kid with ponytails and her bag bigger than her body. But, I’m guessing those aren’t kids anymore. When I see kids now, my whole image of this small cute kid just disappears! They’re not even worth calling kids anymore, honestly. When I was a kid, or may I say when we were kids, speaking on behalf of all of us, we weren’t even a shadow of what these kids are today! I don’t remember having an Apple Iphone or some other classy phone back in sixth grade. (I had a black and white nokia in seventh…..) All of these kids have become such brats, I must say. Using bad words, ones that I wouldn’t dare to utter even today, ones I hadn’t even heard of when I was their age, I think it’s insane! 

I see pre-teens crying over losing their boyfriends and I’m literally talking about people are 11 years old! I hear them whining about how he dumped her and I’m just sitting there and wondering, is this what your life is all about? What happened to the pre- teens who wanted to be first in class, who wanted to read- aloud in class, WHAT HAPPENED? All they’re interested in now is looking out of the window in the boys recess and “showing off” (As they call it) in front of the guys.

Sometimes when I’m walking outside the school campus or some other place where all these weird pre-teens meet up, I see them smoking, hitting each other, making others bleed to be precise and it stuns me. THESE KIDS SMOKE. If you’re a kid and you’re reading this, let me put this in a really simple manner for you, IT IS NOT COOL THAT YOU’RE SMOKING, YOU ARE NO GANGSTER. I don’t remember any of my friends or their friends used to smoke when we were pre- teens.

I can say with much confidence that I wasn’t even two percent of what these kids are today. Studies, home, tuitions, family were my top priorities and that seems to be far away from the priority list for any of these pre-teens.