Greetings World, Readers, Spambots and Trolls.
Growing up in the 21st centaury is a rather interesting topic, one in fact that I have recently been set for my English homework. I chose to write this for you because, well… I’m not feeling very inspired today and can’t give you the normal dose of my life and opinions today.
So, the twenty first centaury, there are lots of different things that could be considered advantages and disadvantages to growing up now, compared to any other time period. Lets start with disadvantages I came up with.
The first is simple, there are no knights and castles. The Medieval ages are my favourite time period from history, and King Arthur, the knights of the round table, all of that seems like a lot of fun to me, and I’d love to be a nobleman or a knight!
Another thing, growing up these days, I can’t leave education until I’m 17, and this very much upsets me at the moment. I’m not really sure if I want to go to college yet, it doesn’t sound fun, education, teachers and classes are really boring me at school…
Development is another reason, development of properties. 1000 years ago, land was common, it was easier to obtain and there was more of it for sale. In comparison it was relatively cheap, and you could buy a plot of land and build your own home… this sounds awesome, and its upsetting that you can’t do it these days. You have to go through planning permission, thousands of pounds to buy the land, where it is available, there are far more houses these days…
Maybe growing up now is not all bad though, life is ‘pretty good’ right now I guess you could say, this might not apply to me or other people personally, but there’s a lot of problems with the past. My main problem with living back in the dark ages or medieval times, is that, well… I couldn’t do this. I couldn’t spend my time blogging to you, my loyal readers. The internet, and the computer are a relatively new invention of the last 50 years or so, and I’m growing up in a great time for computing. At this point in time, a big change is happening, we’re moving away from your standard mouse and keyboard, to touchscreen; on phones, tablets, laptops and even your standard desktop monitor. This is really interesting, it opens up a lot of possibilities in what you can do, for example, you can set certain strokes for passkeys, have less on your desk, and lots of interesting new mechanics in video games. We’re also improving graphics cards, CPUs and just about every other thing. The graphics compared to the past are amazing, we even have 3D gaming, and 3D movies in our own homes now, and High Definition is becoming a more common occurrence.
Another thing that is great, medicine and science… in the past, things like measles used to kill a lot of people, and you’d be lucky to live to age 5 (although this still is a problem in a few parts of the world), these days, life expectancy is going up almost everywhere. The oldest person that’s lived and been recorded currently is 122 years old! I find this rather insane, that you can live for a century and a quarter!
I guess educations improved here… thats good, I know stuff now, and yeah well, on to some “two sided” arguments…
Pollution, these days, we’re all about global warming, are air down here is a lot cleaner that 100 years ago, where everything was coal powered and there’d be soot in the air, and rivers are a lot cleaner… when people aren’t dumping shopping trollies in them. However, that considered, we’re currently destroying our ozone layer a lot more, or atleast we’re more aware of it…
Dangers/Security, people have said its more dangerous to go out these days, and that all our parents had lots of freedom and they were all safe outside. I think thats a lie, we’re more aware of whats going on now, but it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen before. It did. And the fact that people get attacked, well, look, Jack the Ripper… ok true, most children aren’t prostitutes here, but this crime did happen before!
Anyway, to conclude this rather long post, I’m glad to be growing up now, all though if I could pick one other time period, it’d clearly be the medieval ages (common, who doesn’t want to be Robin Hood!), the medicine, technology and science makes me happy that I’m growing up now.
