These holidays made me think about transience of life.
I remembered all Easters in my past, especially those when my dad was alive. It's hard to remember anything except that we were a really happy family. The same family that I'm trying to make now. And I hope that I will be successful like my father but hope that I will stay longer to watch for that family.
It's funny how some things change and some things will always be the same.
I found a toy that I got from my father on Christmas in 1990 or 1991. I can't remember when exactly it was, I was only five or six years old. But the store where he bought that toy still stands there. Long time ago, it was popular toy store, today it's almost empty, because of competition in malls. I remember that we had streets in city center full of funny stores and always crowded with people. That changed, these streets are empty now, nobody even cleans shits of his dog from that streets. And all those people moved to other streets: those inside of mall! And that's how holiday shopping lost the whole magic for me.
Down on the image, you'll see two photos from my birthday. My sister always acted as it was her birthday and that made me angry. Today we are laughing when we remember it!
Looking at today's children makes me think about my generation.
We were humble kids, we were growing in the time of war and it was very different than now. Our parents couldn't give us much more than pure love, but it was all we needed. We didn't cry for expensive toys, sometimes we did, but later we were sorry for wishing impossible. And that was when was the end of communist regime, so we didn't have any crazy toys in stores. But we had a choice in market, we could buy one of only two types of chocolate. Today I see a million of different brands, covers and logos of chocolate on the shelves of a supermarket. And I see toys we couldn't even dream about. And the prices of these super toys are unreasonable.
It's normal to see today a bunch of kids with very expensive cellphones.
I don't think that's good, but if you refuse to buy cool phone to your kid, she/he will start to feel uncomfortable with her/his friends and those friends will mock and talk, but they don't know the real evil of their words. They've been raised to have everything and they start to choose friends who can have everything. But then I see that those cellphones in hands of those kids die really fast. because those kids don't take care about their things, they don't appreciate those gifts from their parents who worked hard to buy it.
I don't say that you shouldn't buy a cool phone for your kid, but you should educate the kid first.
You must teach your kid how to keep the phone safe and how to appreciate the gift that you have worked for. But that the minor thing, first teach your kid that the cellphone is - NOTHING. It doesn't exist at all! It is not important in life, it's time will end for few years and the same child will wish for another one.