When I was growing up, I had a wonderful mother, she was really smart and funny and feisty and I would always say and this, and in the summer we didn’t do anything there was no, we didn’t particularly go to camp, we just, it was a long hot summer there in Burbank. And every day around one o’clock I would announce that I was bored and she only had one answer, well she had two. One was read a book, but her main answer was open up the front door.
And that was such a great thing I said it to my kids. Step outside, there’s, you know you’ll find, it’s out there, things are out there, you can collect leaves or take a magnifying glass and look at a doodle bug or invent a game or just open up the front door, it’s, you know staying inside and announcing that you’re bored is, is boring. But if you step outside with an area, with any kind of curiosity, you’ll find that things capture your interest.
So I think that’s a great thing. The tendency today is I’m bored, I’m going to pick up a device. And those can, those are, that’s a kind of addiction I think. It’s your first reaction. And there are times when it’s great to pick up a device you know but I think it’s, I think in the end it leaves you, it leaves you empty or dejected or under stimulated or unsatisfied or sad.
It never, you know the first half hour is fun and then after that you just, you kind of feel lost I think. Because it’s so much more fun to interact with a human being or to interact with the world. It’s actually physically more fun, it doesn’t make your eyes hurt, it doesn’t dry your mouth, it’s, there are reasons that it’s fun to be outside. There are reasons that it’s fun to play a game with other people.
And so as long as we have a mix of that I think we’re okay, it’s when it becomes all screen related, all device related that I think it’s, it only uses a very small part of our human being-ness, humanity I guess would be a better word.
