Aaaaaaah! There we go, this is life! Laying on the couch after a hard day`s work, light lunch and with a medium size of ice-cream box. The sun is still out and hot, the birds and the bees are feeling lazy but then again I am too.
Then, all of the sudden, I`m startled by a screaming children jamboree from the street:
Little girl 1 screaming: „Never!!! You will never see the child again! Do you get that???“
Little girl 2 yelling: „Don`t even think about it! Give it to me!!!“
Little girl 1 returns: „When I get back, I want ALL your stuff to disappear! Don`t want to see your face ever again!!!“
Little girl 2 furiously: „Oh really! This is my house and my kid! And I`m not leaving anywhere!“
Little girl 1 explodes: „Get out of my face! I hate you!!!“
(..and then I hear a boom, than a bam followed by some strange squall and another loud bam)
Little girls 2 not bealiving: „Let me go! What are you doing?!?!?…Leave the child!!!!“
Little girl 1 in complete desperation: „ Nooooooooo! You can`t have it! It is mine!!!!!
Little girls 3, weakly: „Ahm…aaah…listen… I`m going home, may arms and legs hurt …See ya….“
What the hell?!?… – I`m asking politely the Little girl 3, the youngest among them. The kid looks at me with her last ounce of strenght and says that they are playing the divorce game….Excuse me???? You are playing what?!? Divorce? How do you mean divorce, what kind of game is this?!?
And here I have the child explaining me, The-ooooold-out-of-everything-cool-and-awesome-ignoramus, your`s truly, how the game goes:
– Little girl 1 is the mother which have decided to get a divorce, the child, the house and the whole package;
– Little girl 2 is the father who wants the child, house, and everything else too;
– Little girl 3 is their child who`s been for the last 15 minutes literally dragged and stretched from the two belligerent sides, then thrown into a car, which all have blessed her with several bruises, joint pains and the ephemeral hearing problems…
Hm…Then I ask the child how in the world they have come up to the idea to play the divorce game and the child answers „We saw it in a soap!“ Aaaaaah, there you go! And we are nagging that the today`s youth can`t learn anything from staring into the tv box! Mea culpa, I whisper, returning into the well deserved isolation…
So…From my perspective, I can see that we are developing a complete new generaton which have already adopted a new standard of communication. The kids have learned what is normal and expected in the situations like divorce, relationships and the matters of a heart in general. If you don`t scream, threat or hurt somebody – this is just not it. Being civilized and respectful is just not the way.
A short one : turn of the tv! Let the children out, give them a good book, or at least change the channel to something which will broaden their horizons, knowledge, positive imagination and emotional freedom.
This one goes for the big ones, too. And don`t cheat! Give yourself something good, something priceless like…like your life with all the goodies to make you a even better, smarter and, by all means, a healthier person.