The fun? Of course it exists! ”, You will all say. But my question is “What do you mean by fun?”. I’m sure many will reply ” Social networks , the internet , texting , chatting , surfing , downloading movies and songs …”. So at this point I ask myself “Is this the real fun?”. I really think that parents and grandparents say no, because the technology did not yet exist or was underdeveloped and widespread or especially used only for business purposes. So we come to the present day, asking ourselves how we managed to get to this situation in which virtual life takes over.
Obviously, in my opinion,the internet was one of the greatest inventions , not only because young people can do research faster and comfortably, but also because social networks, if used in moderation, are positive and useful because they allow contact between people physically distant but close with heart. The real fun is instead being with friends or relatives, whenever possible, going out in the open air, making new real friends; then depending on the age: pizzerias, restaurants, pubs, discos … In fact, in my opinion, it is better to really know a person, because he is safer and makes both happier. Connecting, speaking, writing virtually is only an occasion or an eventreplacement of the physical encounter when the latter is impossible.
I don’t want to change the world, because the world is what it is and it goes on regardless of my ideas, fortunately, but I would like many teenagers to say to me “What newspapers say is true: today teenagers can no longer enjoy themselves” . In order for the government to listen to our whims and desires, we must prove that we are a generation with solid principles and better morals than some people of the last generation. Once I even heard my grandmother say, “In my generation it was better! Of course, we were poorer, but we had fun and learned more not from books, but it was life that made us a culture and taught us to live with respect for others and therefore to live well with others “. At first I thought “But how can you say that you were better than now, if they were sent to work from an early age and then after the Second World War they were very poor, they didn’t even have their own bathroom, but in the farmhouses there was only one public bathroom! ” we were satisfied even if we had nothing and today that we have everything we are never satisfied.
Then I thought that often we stop at the appearance of things, their external appearance, and we do not grasp the teachings that every event, good or bad, can give. In fact it is true, the concept of fun has changed over time, like many other words, but this time I believe that we too have changed, or at least a good part of us. I hope my words will remain in someone’s mind and heart as a push to move forward in a better way and will not be thrown to the wind like sand between the fingers that blows away with a breath. There are several ways to have fun. The only thing that is missing or that is slowly disappearing is the ability to find a way to do it. One rule: BE ORIGINAL;without demanding extreme acts, outside the rational, extra-terrestrial things or adventures in Jurassic Park . In short, nothing that is full of risk and unattainable. As for the rest, fun should not necessarily be connected , as if it were a religious dogma, to fun with alcohol.. NO!
Many kids find in alcohol, their relief valve, their way of achieving fun in a colossal way, their “not understanding anything”: absent completely from all that is right and start behaving like a Teletubbies that shoots senseless phrases and always has a good reason to speak with inanimate objects, laugh, sing, dance or do anything else inappropriate. Not to mention the next stage where you are most likely, lying on the floor as pale as a rag or clinging to the toilet as if it were our newfound lover! The fun is also in spending a simple evening with the people you are comfortable with. A spaghetti, a beer in the center in the center (ONE and not EIGHT), a walk in the park ..
In short, knowing how to have fun even doing simple things in simple places and without shrinking like a rag. Ah yes, because I was forgetting to tell you about the fateful ” day-after”. It is atrocious: you don’t even remember your name or that of the person with whom you spent the whole evening and you start asking yourself a thousand questions about everything that could ever have happened; and here are the thousand confirmatory calls to the friend who was probably in even worse condition, to the neighbor, or to the major exponent of the CIA and the thousand questions about trying vaguely to understand if the mysterious boy of the previous evening is a mix between Johnny Depp and Ben Affleck or Gollum, character of the Lord of the rings with abominable ugliness. So guys, have fun and be able to do it in the most balanced way possible, not locking yourself in your rooms watching pathetic reality shows or dissolving in front of the PC with a tray of high-calorie ice cream,
