Some days ago, I saw my nephew playing with his x-box and cellphone. While I watched him carefully, I realized how quickly he moved his hands in order to press the buttons of the controller, while he responded to his friends in the whatsapp chat, giving them instructions about how to play the game and defeat the enemies. I recalled when I was younger and realized that my distractions were related to play with my toys and talk with my friends in the park. I never thought about the possibility of having an electronic device to communicate with my friends and play with them online.

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Nowadays kids are so happy playing in home all the time in any platform that let them play with friends and people all around the world. In my case, I’d preferred going out seeking for a friend to play in the neighborhood so we could have fun with anything.  We also wore our mother’s clothes so we could play about being adults. Actually, that game is still present in today's children.

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When I told my nephew about the games I used to play when I was a kid, he just said: “Aunt, you guys were so boring, I just couldn't have been happy at that time.” That response made me think for a moment about my happiness at that time. I just listened a Rolling Stones song called: “Living in a ghost town”.  There’s a part in the lyrics that says: “Life was so beautiful, then we all got locked down”.

That phrase reminded me the huge contrast between generations; the advanced and technological games today and the simple and humbles back then. Today kids spend hours locked down in home, playing in the computer or in a cellphone. I think there’s no better generation, it’s just the time passing by. Both generations have been so glad in their own circumstances.

Finally, I would like to think about those days plenty of joy and happiness when we played such a wonderful games like hide and seek, blind chicken or cops and thieves. Those were the times of our lives.