This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things...

Growing up as a kid me and my brother had two holy grails when it came to toys. They were both toys my dad had growing up. One was an Atari 64ish game counsel. The thing had to be at least 15 years old and it was a dinosaur compared to the original Nintendo. Still it was in perfect condition and my brother and I would love to play it. The second game was his old school rock em sock em robots. This thing was 20 years old if it was a day. But still it worked great. My brother and I loved it. My dad always told us to be careful with these toys. In hindsight I think he was more concerned with protecting these toys then he was protecting us :). My dad grew up in an age when things actually broke. I am not kidding, I drop my iPod all the time and it just keeps ticking. We have grown up in an age where our "toys" are almost indestructible. What does this mean? We have grown up not taking care of anything. If we break something or lose it we buy another one. We are a generation that accidentally drops cell phones down toilets, steps on iPods, throw our CDs around to the point were they get so scratched you can't even play them. We are so jaded we refer to an album coming out as a "CD dropping." CDs SHOULDN'T drop!!! When CDs drop they get damaged. Could you imagine your parents or grandparents, at the age of 20 something, getting a device that costs 400 dollars, plays music, video, connects you to other people around the world, records video and makes phone calls. They would lay down their life to make sure nothing happened to it. Don't believe me? Think about grandma's couch wrapped in plastic, or how your paents would never let you eat in the living room for fear that you would drop something on the crappy shag carpet.

Hell, it gotten so bad that we don't even make things anymore just to make sure that we don't f' them up. Pretty soon the idea of owning a CD, DVD, or printed material will be a thing of the past. Music, movies, books, magazines and newspapers will be completely digital just to ensure that we don't even get a chance at destroying them. But not us, we absolutely wreck our iPods and cell phones. We scratch the damn thing, drop it, lose it in a drunken stooper. We abuse the damn thing and we treat it that way because we are now building things to withstand mistreatment from dumb asses like us!

How many more times do we have to see a "I lost my cell phone need your numbers" thing on facebook.

You lost a device that allows you to make phone calls from anywhere and keep the personal information of thousands of people in pocket? How do we get careless with something that amazing? If you went back in time 60 years with a cell phone you would be arrested and accused of being a witch! Thats how awesome a cell phone is and yet we just treat it like its nothing.

I guess what I am saying is that we live in a golden age. We have treasures (expensive ones) at our finger tips. Lets prove to ourselves that we deserve them. Lets prove that we can have nice things.