Back to the Basics

So I saw this video come up on my Facebook, one of my friends shared it. And I loved the video! I think that it's totally accurate and that people should stop moving forward so quickly and take a step back. We need to remember whats important in life, and I know that if we watched this video it would make us stop to think about how we live our lives.

Now I know technology is advancing and its exciting but in reality we are loosing our ability to be social and interact with one another just as this video states. I babysit for children between the ages of 3-8 and it is really sad to see that they don't even play with each other. They play NEXT to each other on the same video game, but rarely do they go out to play football in the back yard. To me that is just the saddest thing.

One of my goals in life is to move back to the country. I want to be able to raise my children in an area where they are not connected to the internet every day, a place where they have friends who go out and play tag and go see a movie together. People wonder why we have such an obesity epidemic in the US today, and it's because we are LAZY PEOPLE. We don't go out and play. For most adults its hard to find even 30 minutes a day to dedicate to working out. And its only because we live this lifestyle that we have to dedicate time to "workout." In the good old days, people didn't "workout" they did activities of daily living, and that consisted of their workouts. They would go out and play with their children, go take the dog for a walk, chop down trees to keep their house warm in the winter, go on a hike to find a deer that they would eat for the next week. The lifestyles of then and now have changed tremendously, and I look forward to the day where I can revert back to the lifestyle I want to live.

Anyways, heres the link to the video page.

http://elitedaily.com/news/world/this-is-one-of-the-most-vital-messages-gen-y-needs-to-hear-video/